even recognized. I believe that this was a tool used purposefully be Shepard. By the time Vince shows up, we are all looking for someone to start making some sense. We immediately choose to belive Vince, and don't even consider that they're right, and he's making up the fact that he's the grandson. To add to all of this, Bradley, the one-legged son, insists that Shelley allow him to shove his fingers down her oral cavity. Furthermore, she is bombarded with extremely personal information that not even other family members know. She learns that Dodge drowned a baby and buried it in the backyard, which we later learn is quite possibly the offspring of Tilden and Halie. Dodge is upset at Halie for coming back drunk with the preacher, and for making rude comments to Shelley. So he spills his guts about how she had been involved with another man and had a child with him. On top of everything else, this family may very well be incestuous as well.Vince comes back drunk, and he is then immediately recognized. He was going to run away, but something made him come back. Probably because he didn't want to leave Shelley alone with his family. He gets her out of there, and all hell breaks loose as he creates havoc. He smashes beer bottles along the side of the porch. He throws Bradley's fake leg offstage and Bradley crawls away trying to retrieve it. This leaves only Dodge and Vince alone, sitting on the couch. Dodge gives the house over to Vince. This is symbolic of putting the family in the hands of the only man capable of taking care of themselves.Many proposterous events occur in this play, as I have outlined. The more you learn about this family, the more dis-functional they appear. Dodge, an obviously beaten and tired man, did have some rationale. We find out at the end, that he was unwilling to die without passing the torch, so to speak. He appeared to be beyond his time, and I figured that there had to be a reason for hi...
