August: Osage County

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Across
  1. 2. What are several of the characters in regards to the secret?
  2. 4. What word describes Letts' vision of America?
  3. 5. What is the play suggesting both America and Beverley failed to live up to?
  4. 8. The secret results in many instances of this.
  5. 9. Barbara turns herself into a version of her ___________?
  6. 11. The suffocating physical environment is a metaphor for the suffocating ___________ environment.
  7. 12. What does the play suggest we cannot escape?
  8. 13. Ivy and Little Charles "going into the sunset" suggests the bloodline is _________.
  9. 15. The light begins to come into the house as the secret is ______.
  10. 17. Many characters use these to cope.
  11. 21. What pattern shown to be mimicked from parents in adult choices?
Down
  1. 1. What word describes many of the characters?
  2. 3. What does Johnna provide in terms of our understanding of the Weston family?
  3. 6. What literary term describes Violet's mouth cancer?
  4. 7. What does Karen lack?
  5. 10. What is sealed for Jean by being born into this family?
  6. 14. What literary term describes the dead parakeets?
  7. 16. What does an essay need to succeed?
  8. 18. It is clearly passed down through the generations.
  9. 19. What is at the heart of the family's issues?
  10. 20. What marriage pattern do we see repeated?
  11. 22. What can Beverley be compared to?