Prompt 13: Three Viewings

One common place that all three monologues mention is the Green Mill Luncheonette.  In the first monologue, Emil and Tessie have lunch there.  In the second monologue, Mac goes there after her grandmother's second viewing at the funeral parlor to get drunk.  And in the last monologue, it is the place where Ed and Virginia first met.  It is interesting how these three monologues have important moments happening in this one place.  

In the first monologue, Emil and Tessie have lunch in the Green Mill.  At this point in the monologue, they share a sweet moment and it seems that at this moment Emil makes the decision to finally tell Tessie how he feels.  But he doesn't which is disappointing because he never ends up telling her.  For the second monologue, Mac goes to the restaurant to get drunk after her grandmother's viewing.  But she gets sad and depressed and leaves before she starts drinking because the person she was going to get drunk with takes off his wedding ring.  After this moment, Mac goes back to her hotel and she has a dream about her dead husband where she realizes that what she is planning on doing is wrong and a is the first moment that leads to her coming to terms with her guilt for killing her family.  And in the last monologue, Virginia gets upset because, among other things, she can't remember where she met her late husband.  At the end of the monologue, she finds out it is at the Green Mill.  

This place in Three Viewings is a symbol for love in this play.  It is the place where all the love is sort of brought out or is the place where love is sparked.  For the first monologue, it is the love that Emil has for Tessie is brought out here.  For Mac, it is the place where things start to happen to her that makes her come to terms with her family dying.  And it is the place where Virginia and Ed, a loving couple, first met.  So yea, this place symbolizes the love in the play.