Complete this activity using your copy of our town. the stage manager supplies information that reveals the past, present, and future overlapping in act i. find two examples, other than the automobile and the dated tombstones, of overlapping time periods.

The Stage Manager overlaps past and future when he describes the Gibbs:
"Doc Gibbs died in 1930." (future) Then he says: "Mrs. Gibbs died first--long time ago, in fact." (past).

The second example is when he talks about the cornerstone they're putting in the bank so that people "a thousand years from now" can find it. He discusses the ancient Babylonians and then the people of a thousand years from the present. 

It could be said that the major gets upset because his wife has just died in an unexpected way. the major has received medals for his valor in battle but he never brags about it instead nick does. however, this is not what bothers him but that his young wife has died.