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The Glass Menagerie (Amanda)
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26
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9th Grade
10/06/2010

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Hello Mother I was -
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Deception? Deception?
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Didnt you go to the D.A.R meeting?
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-No -No. I did not have the strength- to go to the D.A.R in fact. I did not have the courage! I wanted to find a hole in the ground and hide myself in it forever! [tears typing paper in half]
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Why are you-
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Why? Why? How old are you Laura?
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Mother, you know my age.
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I thought that you were an adult. It seems that I was mistaken. [crosses to sofa and sinks down and stares at laura]
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Please dont stare at me mother.
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What are we going to do? What is going to become of us, what is the future?
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Has something happened mother? Mother? Has something happened?
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Ill be alright in a minute, im just bewildered [hesitates] by life. . .
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Mother! I wish that you would tell me whats happened!
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As you know I was supposed to be inducted into my office at the D.A.R this evening... But I stopped off at Rubicam's business College to speak to your teacher about your cold and to see what progress they thought you were making down there.
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Oh...
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I went to the typing instructor and introduced myself as your mother."We dont have any such student enrolled in this school." I assured her she did! I wonder if you could be talking about that terribly shy little girl who dropped out of school! Oh I felt so weak I could barely keep on my feet!
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[laura gets up and walks over to menagerie]
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What are you doing?
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Oh! [walks back to seat]
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Laura, where have you been going when you've gone out pretending you were going to business college?
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Ive just been out walking!
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Thats not true.
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It is. I just went walking
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Walking? Walking? In winter, delibritley courting pnemonia in that light coat? Where did you walk to. Laura?
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allsorts of places, like in the park.
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even after you caught that cold?
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i couldnt go back there! I threw up, on the floor!
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From half part seven til every five in the afternoon you mean to tell me you walked around in the park because you wanted to make me think you were still going to college?
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I went inside places to get warmed up.
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Inside where?
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--that big glass house where they raise the tropical flowers.
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you did all this to decieve me, just for deception?
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--like the picture of jesus's face in the museum!
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hush!
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I couldnt face it.
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So what are we going to do the rest of our lives? Stay home and watch the parades go by? Amuse ourselves with the glass menagerie darling? Eternally play those worn out phonograph records your father left as a painful reminder of him? We wont have a business career - weve given that much up because it gives us nervous indegestion [laughs warily] What is there left but dependency all our lives? I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who arent prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the south - barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! -stuck away in some little mousetrap of a room - encouraged by one-in-law to visit another, little birdlike women without any nest - eating the crust of humility all their lives! Is that the future weve mapped out for ourselves? I swear its the only alternative I can think of!
[pauses] It isnt a very pleasant alternative is it?
[pauses] of course some girls do marry...
havent you ever liked some boy?
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-i came across his picture a while ago.
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he gave you his picture?
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No- its in the yearbook.
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oh, a highschool boy.
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-here he is in the pirates of penzance
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the what?
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-operatta the class put on
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He must of had a jolly disposition.
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He used to call me blue roses...
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Why did he call you such a name as that??
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-they must be married by now!
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Girls who arent cut out for business careers usually end up married to some nice man. [gets up with a spark of revival.] sister! thats what youll do!
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but mother!
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yes?
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im crippled!
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Laura, ive told you never, never to use that word. Why, your not crippled! you just have a little defect - hardly noticable even! when people have some slight disadvantage like that they cultivate for other things like vivacity -and charm thats what you have to do! one thing your father did have was charm...
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