Part 2: Act 4, Scene 4 Summary

Hannah and Joe meet at the Mormon center. He has not been in contact with her for over a month since she arrived. Joe asks how Harper is doing. He wants Hannah to go back to Salt Lake. They argue about Joe's plan to take Harper back to his old apartment. Hannah says she must have escaped from the place in Brooklyn. She says men always make mistakes, and asks him what he was running from when he originally left Salt Lake.

Joe leaves and Prior enters. Prior tells Hannah he came to warn Joe about what happens when Louis loses interest in him. He starts to cry. He asks Hannah to help him to the hospital. Hannah helps him and says there is a storm on the way.

Part 2: Act 4, Scene 4 Analysis

Joe symbolically confronts his mother, and...