All humans remake themselves.

Memories and stories are reshaped to fit public persona, to shield each other from "horrible truth," and even to save oneself from embarrassment. Children have secrets, parents have secrets, and families have secrets. Only with he passage of time, with the experience of adulthood, can we hope to gain knowledge and insight into these secrets. In The Players Come Again, Amanda Cross explores the secrets and relationships between daughters and father, wife and husband, and contrasts them to the relationship between a father and his son. She also explores the relationships of women from different stations and backgrounds who share common experiences and love for one another.

1. The title The Players Come Again is taken from a poem by Virginia Woolf.

What does it mean?

2. In The Players Come Again, the author refers to Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers." In that...