Point of View

A Moon for the Misbegotten is a play. Each of the five characters speaks lines for themselves, so the story is portrayed objectively. There is no voice filtering any of the characters' own voices.

Sometimes a character relates information that happened offstage or prior to the onset of the play. Jim relates a few stories, about winning at horses and finding it unsatisfying, to revisiting his behavior on the train following his mother's death. Josie passes on information about the two brothers that left years before this moment in time. Hogan speaks of his evening at the inn, when Jim agreed to sell the property to Harder.

Setting

A Moon for the Misbegotten takes place September 1923, in a run-down home in Connecticut on a farm. The house has not been painted in a long time and there is an addition tacked on to the building that...