“The train doesn’t stop in Lilly on Tuesdays anymore. ... Tuesday was train day…” (7)
This statement is the beginning and ending of the play from Kenneth Dyba’s 1980 play, Lilly, Alta, the main character, Willy Tyler—an old man who recounts his past to “Scout” about the town of Lilly, Alta—the event of the train coming to the town is what is significant in the memory of Willy and how it his life. ...
As the manager and/or librarian of the town library, Willy relates what his life was like in the early days, beginning with his description of Mrs. Lilly, one of the main characters, who lived in a huge house on top of a hill overlooking the town of Lilly. ... Lilly is described as the woman who “owns” the town and is wealthy from all the land and businesses she owns in and around Lilly.
Gypsy Savage, the woman who owns the local café, meets Willy and she begins telling Willy about the affair she had with Mrs. Lilly’s husband Quenten Boone and that she suspects that when Mrs. Lilly found out about his affair with Gypsy she killed him by poisoning him. ... Lilly and marry Gypsy because she was pregnant with his child. ... Lilly probably didn’t want to be humiliated and killed Quenten by poisoning him and making up the story that he was poisoned by a rattlesnake bite. ... Lilly. ... Lilly and her lawyer, and Gypsy being an immigrant and probably not understanding the laws conformed to Mrs. Lilly’s wishes by allowing her to adopt and raise the child, but with all the years passed she regrets giving up her child to a manipulative woman like Mrs. Lilly. ... Lilly, so no one ever speaks publicly about it. ... Lilly is by taking mentally challenged boys from Ponoka, Denny being the current boy, who continuously plays with matches. ... Lilly of the child she may have lost at one time and with this type of revenge it speculates that Mrs.
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