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Bus Stop: A Comprehe­nsive Summary of the Play by William Inge

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Bus Stop by William Inge


The play ‚”Bus stop” is set in a diner in early March of 1955. A snowstorm has delayed the trip, so the 5 characters who are on the bus and the 3 who are in the diner spend around 1-5 a.m. together.

Grace, the owner of the diner, and Carl, the bus driver, have a little bit of a relationship. Cherie, who is a singer, is also in a little bit of a love mess with Bo, who is a young cowboy. Elma, the waitress, and Professor Lyman have a little bit of something going on between them, but this ends as the play ends.

The sheriff informs the two ladies in the diner about the bus stopping and that the passengers will be stuck there until the road is cleared from the snow.

Cherie tries to escape from Bo, but the more talk, the more they argue about their issues in their relationship. By the end of the play they both get back together on the bus and head to Montana. When Carl walks into the diner, it becomes obvious that Grace and Carl are interested in each other.

After a little bit of a whispering conversation, they secretly go with each other upstairs.

Dr. Lyman who is pretty drunk at this time and very suspicious, begins his seduction of Elma. He wants to meet with her in secret later on in the night, but Elma is too innocent to recognize that his intentions are less than honorable. The other two characters have a little protection role, because the sheriff had promised to protect Cherie, Virgil the older Cowboy is a good friend from Bo who helps him get over Cherie.

The young cowboy Bo Decker is an aggressive man, his slogan in his life is that he takes whatever he wants. This is what he does with woman too. In the play he wants to marry Cherie but because she doesn’t want to get married, so he kidnaps her, to get he.....[read full text]

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