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1. What is the main point of the poem fragment "Hidden" that serves as the book's epigraph?

This poem fragment expresses the speaker's feeling that they have been hiding their true self because of social pressure, and that only in their most secret writings and actions can someone see this truth. They hope that someday the world will have changed enough that people like them can live openly and freely.

2. Why does Young Man 1 turn to Morgan for help in the play's prologue?

Morgan is the great writer E. M. Forster, whom the Young Men all admire for the wisdom, honesty, and compassion of his book Howards End. Young Man 1 is hoping that Morgan can give him advice about how to start writing his story.

3. How does the proposed beginning of Young Man 1's story echo the opening of one of Morgan's books?

E. M. Forster begins Howards End with the sentence "One may as well begin with Helen’s letters to her sister." The Young Man admires this casual, offhand opening, and he chooses to begin his own story with "One may as well begin with Toby's voicemails" (10).

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