How we cite our quotes: (Name of Play, Act #)
Quote #4
LAVINIA: How can you be so unfeeling?
ORIN: I didn't mean that. My mind is still full of ghosts. I can't grasp anything but war, in which he was so alive. He was the war to me—the war that would never end until I died. I can't understand peace—his end! God damn it, Vinnie, give me a chance to get used to these things! (The Hunted, Act 1)
Sounds to us like the ghosts Orin's talking about could be the memories of the people he's killed—or maybe it's just more crazy talk.
Quote #5
CHRISTINE: No—remember your father wouldn't want—any scandal—he mustn't be worried, he said—he needs to rest in peace—You seem the same in death, Ezra! You were always dead to me! I hate the sight of death! I hate the thought of it!
ORIN: Mother! For God's sake, be quiet! God! To think I hoped home would be an escape from death! I should never have come back to life—from my island of peace! But that's lost now! You're my lost island, aren't you, mother?
LAVINIA: It was Brant who got you this—medicine to make you sleep—wasn't it?
CHRISTINE: No! No! No!
LAVINIA: You're telling me it was. I knew it—but I wanted to make sure.
CHRISTINE: Ezra! Don't let her harm Adam! I am the guilty one! Don't let Orin—! (The Hunted, Act 3)
It looks like Orin isn't the only one who sees dead people—kind of like they're both communicating with the spirits. Why would she think that the ghost of the man she killed is going to protect her lover?
Quote #6
HAZEL: Seth! What would Vinnie say if she knew you did such things?
SETH: There ain't no harm done. I calc'late Abner didn't break nothin'. And Vinnie wouldn't mind when she knew why I done it. I was aimin' to stop the durned gabbin' that's been goin' round town about this house bein' haunted. You've heard it, ain't ye?
PETER: I heard some silly talk but didn't pay attention—
SETH: That durned idjut female I got in to clean a month after Vinnie and Orin sailed started it. Said she'd felt ghosts around. You know how them things grow. Seemed to me Abner's braggin' gave me a good chance to stop it by turnin' it all into a joke on him folks'd laugh at. An' when I git through tellin' my story of it round town tomorrow you'll find folks'll shet up and not take it serious no more.
PETER: You're right, Seth. That was a darned slick notion! Nothing like a joke to lay a ghost!
SETH: Ayeh. But—Between you 'n' me 'n' the lamp-post, it ain't all sech a joke as it sounds—that about the hauntin', I mean.
PETER: You aren't going to tell me you think the house is haunted too? […]
SETH […] There's times when a man's a darn fool not to be scared! Oh, don't git it in your heads I take stock in spirits trespassin' round in windin' sheets or no such lunatic doin's. But there is such a thing as evil spirit. An' I've felt it, goin' in there daytimes to see to things—like somethin' rottin' in the walls! (The Haunted, Act 1, Scene 1)
Do you agree with Seth? What is he really talking about here? It's a cliché that lower-class people are superstitious and believe in ghosts, and the more sophisticated Peter is gently ridiculing Seth's idea.