The significance of the opening scene is to introduce how Lucas and Jacqueline met. The opening scene implies that Lucas will protect her no matter what happens to himself.
The significance of the closing scene is to show how the relationship between Lucas and Jacqueline has grown. The closing scene implies how they have an undeniable love for each other.
Significant characters:
- Jacqueline: a college girl who followed her boyfriend Kennedy to college and is a music major
- Lucas: the tutor that Jacqueline is assigned to and the guy who saved her from rape twice
- Erin: Jacqueline's best friend who takes Jacqueline almost everywhere with her
- Buck: a friend of both Jacqueline and Erin who had tried to rape Jacqueline.
- Kennedy: Jacqueline's boyfriend who soon breaks up with her to be with other girls
Some important quotes:
- Erin: ""Jacqueline, babe, I know this is hard. But you can't let Kennedy win! You can't let him make you a hermit,or keep you scared of falling for someone new. God, I love this part of it - the hunt for a new guy, everything unknown, untried - the mass of hot prospects in front of you, waiting to be discovered."" (Webber 45) -- means that Jacqueline shouldn't let the past get the better of her. Erin is telling Jacqueline that she can always find someone else in her life.
- Erin: ""Jacqueline, how can you...of course I believe you! What kind of question is that?" She glared at me, insulted. "And by the way, why the hell didn't you tell me this before now? Because you didn't think I'd believe you?" Her lip quivered, transforming her expression from offended to injured."" (Webber 110) -- Erin is insulted that her best friend didn't trust her because she expected her friend to trust her.
- Lucas: ""He took you for granted, even when you stood next to him, holding his hand. Like you were an accessory." He frowned, and I remembered feeling exactly like that with Kennedy."" (Webber 221) -- Lucas is saying that he was and that Kennedy took Jacqueline's love for granted. He implies that he isn't the same as Kennedy is to her.
- Lucas: "He shook his head. "I'd fixed the house's AC the night before. Maintenance doesn't do emergency stuff on evenings or weekends, but I'm contract labor, so I agreed to do it. When i wouldn't take a tip, a couple of the guys invited me to the party. I only said yes because I was hoping you might be there. It had been two weeks, and this campus is so huge I was starting to think I'd never run into you." He chuckled softly and i rubbed a hand at the back of my neck. "Wow, that sounds like a total stalker." (Webber 222) -- Lucas means that he wanted a chance to prove himself to Jacqueline so he would do anything for that chance.
- Jacqeuline: "My tears spilled over onto the pillow between us. "Lucas, think about Harrison. See yourself for the boy you were, and quit blaming him for not stopping something a grown man might have been unable to stop. What have you told me, over and over? It wasn't your fault. You need to talk to someone, and figure out how to forgive yourself for responsibility your mother never would have wanted you to accept. Will you try? Please?"" (Webber 305) -- Jacqueline basically means that he should stop blaming himself for his mother's death because the mother would have never blamed him because he tried, but just didn't succeed at it. he should just forgive himself and move on with his life and let himself be at peace with no guilt in his mind.
The theme of the play would be:
- Love isn't always where you think it is.
- Sometimes the person you trusted isn't always able to be trusted.
