Quote 4
Ann: Don't yell at him. He just wants everybody happy.
Keller: [clasps her around the waist] That's my sentiments. Can you stand steak? (1.487-88)
Joe is a socially talented man, usually able to charm away any conflict.
Quote 5
Ann: I don't care what they think, I just don't understand why you took the trouble to deny it. You said it was all forgotten. (2.113)
Ann's realization that Chris lied about this makes her suspicious. What else might he be lying about? His father's guilt?
Quote 6
Ann: I guess I never grew up. It almost seems that Mom and Pop are in there now… Gosh, those dear dead days beyond recall. (1.348)
Ann has a placid relationship with the past – perhaps facilitated by the cut-and-dried decision she made to break with her father. Her happy memories contrast with the fraught way Kate, Joe, and Chris think about Larry.