As a principle, all characters are equally important.
There are flowers everywhere, if you look carefully. Spending their beauty, giving it away. I wish I could marry a flower.
“AGNES: Tell me, why do flowers rise from dirt?
THE WINDOW FITTER: (kindly) Flowers hate dirt. They hurry to rise towards light, to bloom and to die.”
Between bloom and death, do flowers fall inlove?
“THE LAWYER: I am poor.
AGNES: It doesn’t matter, if we are inlove. In any case, beautiful feelings don’t cost a thing.”
Rain is expensive, when a child keeps crying into your breasts. So are sun, soil, colour. Beauty is sold first…we must eat, we must eat. Close that door, it’s freezing.
“AGNES: It’s horribly difficult, being married… it’s more difficult than anything else! You must be an angel for it, I think.
THE LAWYER: Indeed.
AGNES: I think I’m about to hate you.
THE LAWYER: Then poor us!… But we must not let hatred overwhelm us! I promise you I won’t say a thing about cleaning the house… even if it’s a torture for me!
AGNES: And I will eat cabbage, even if it makes me sick.“
We have cabbage for dinner and dust on our tables, my love. The child has stopped crying.
– quotes from August Strindberg – A Dream Play
