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A View from the Bridge > Act 1, scene 1 > Flashcards

Act 1, scene 1 Flashcards

1
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See ya, Louis.

A

Hi, Eddie!

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2
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Where you goin’ all dressed up?

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I just got it. You like it?

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Yeah, it’s nice. And what happened to your hair?

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You like it? I fixed it different. He’s here, B!

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Beautiful. Turn around, lemme see in the back. Oh, if your mother was alive to see you now! She wouldn’t believe it.

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You like it, huh?

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You look like one of them girls that went to college. Where you goin’?

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Wait’ll B comes in, I’ll tell you something. Here, sit down. Hurry up, will you B?

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What’s goin’ on?

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I’ll get you a beer, all right?

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Well tell me what happened. Come over here, talk to me.

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I want to wait till B comes in. Guess how much we paid for the skirt.

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I think it’s too short, ain’t it?

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No! Not when I stand up.

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Yeah, but you gotta sit down sometimes.

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Eddie, it’s the style now. I mean, if you seen me walkin’ down the street…

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Listen, you been givin’ me the willies the way you walk down the street, I mean it.

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Why?!

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Catherine, I don’t want to be a pest, but I’m tellin’ you you’re walkin’ wavey.

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I’m walkin’ wavey!?

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Now don’t aggravate me, Katie. . . The heads are turnin’ like windmills.

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But those guys look at all the girls, you know that.

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You ain’t “all the girls.”

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What do you want me to do? You want me to…?

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Now don’t get mad kid. . .

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Well, I don’t know what you want from me. . .

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Katie, I promised your mother on her death bed. . . I mean like when you stand here by the window, wavin’ outside.

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I was wavin’ to Louis!

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Listen, I could tell you things about Louis which you wouldn’t wave to him no more.

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Eddie, I wish there was one guy you couldn’t tell me things about!

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Catherine, do me a favor, will you? . . . Get her in here, will you? I got news for her.

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What?

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15
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Her cousins landed

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No! B! Your cousins. . . !

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15
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What. . . ?

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Your cousins got in!

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16
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Whyn’t you run down buy a table cloth? Go ahead, here. . .

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There’s no stores open now.

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I know well I thought it was gonna be next week! I was gonna clean the walls, I was gonna wax the floors. . .

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Maybe Mrs. Dondero upstairs. . .

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17
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Go, Baby, set the table.

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We didn’t tell him about me yet.

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18
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What job? She’s gonna finish school.

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Eddie, you won’t believe it. . .

19
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No, no, you gonna finish school. What kinda job, what do you mean? All of a sudden you. . . ?

A

Listen a minute, it’s wonderful.

20
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(E) It’s not wonderful. You’ll never get nowheres unless you finish school. . . (B) She’s askin’ you now, she didn’t take nothin’ yet.

A

Listen a minute! I came to school this morning and the principle called me out of the class, see? To go to his office.

21
Q

Yeah?

A

So I went in and he says to me he’s got my records, y’know? And there’s a company wants a girl right away. It ain’t exactly a secretary, it’s a stenographer first, but pretty soon you get to be secretary. And he says to me that I’m the best student in the whole class. . .

22
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(B) You hear that? (E) Well, why not? Sure she’s the best.

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I’m the best student, he says, and if I want, I should take the job and the end of the year he’ll let me take the examination and he’ll give me the certificate. So i’ll save practically a year!

23
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Where’s the job? What company?

A

It’s a big plumbing company over Nostrand Avenue.

24
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(B) Fifty dollars a week, Eddie. (E) Fifty?

A

I swear.

24
Q

Nostrand Avenue and where?

A

It’s some place by the Navy Yard.

25
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What about all the stuff you wouldn’t learn this year, thought?

A

There’s nothin’ more to learn, Eddie, I just gotta practice from now on. I know all the symbols and I know the keyboard. i’ll just get faster, that’s all. And when I’m workin’ I’ll keep gettin’ better and better, you see?

26
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(B) Work is the best practice anyway. (E) That ain’t what I wanted though.

A

Why! It’s a great big company. . .

27
Q

I don’t like that neighborhood over there.

A

It’s a block and a half from the subway, he says.

27
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And then you’ll move away.

A

No, Eddie!

27
Q

Listen, Bea, she’ll be with a lotta plumbers? And sailors up and down the street? So what did she go to school for?

A

But it’s fifty a week, Eddie.

27
Q

You wanna go to work, heh, Madonna?

A

Yeah.

27
Q

All right, go to work. Hey, hey! Take it easy! What’re you cryin about ?

A

I just. . . I’m gonna buy all new dishes with my first pay! I mean it. I’ll fix up the whole house! I’ll buy a rug!

28
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Why not? That’s life. And you’ll come visit on Sundays, then once a month, then Christmas and New Year’s

A

No, please!

28
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. . . Believe me, Katie, the less you trust, the less you be sorry.

A

First thing I’ll buy is a rug, heh, B?

28
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(B) I don’t mind. I smelled coffee all day today. You unloadin’ coffee today? (E) Yeah, a Brazil ship.

A

I smelled it too. It smelled all over the neighborhood.

29
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(B) What time is it? (E) Quarter nine.

A

He’s bringin’ them ten o’clock, Mike?

30
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Around, yeah.

A

Eddie, suppose somebody asks if they’re livin’ here. I mean if they ask.

31
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. . . this is the Immigration Bureau – if you said it you knew it, if you didn’t say it, you didn’t know it.

A

Yeah, but, Eddie, suppose somebody–

31
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. . . but the family had an uncle that they were hidin’ in the house, and he snitched to the immigration. . .

A

The kid snitched?!

31
Q

Now look, Baby, I can see we’re gettin’ mixed up again here. . .

A

No, I just mean. . . people’ll see them goin’ in and out. . .

32
Q

On his own uncle!

A

What, was he crazy?

32
Q

. . . and they spit on him in the street, his own father and his brothers. the whole neighborhood was cryin’

A

Ts! So what happened to him?

32
Q

. . . Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.

A

Okay, I won’t say a word to nobody, I swear.

33
Q

. . . I’ll wait, it only take a few minutes; I could broil it.

A

What happens, Eddie, when that ship pulls out and they ain’t on it, thought? Don’t the captain say nothin’?

34
Q

Captain’s pieced off, what do you mean?

A

Even the captain?!

34
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. . . So you gonna start Monday, heh, Madonna?

A

I’m supposed to, yeah.

35
Q

Well I hope you have good luck. I wish you the best. you know that, kid.

A

You sound like I’m goin’ a million miles!

36
Q

I know. I guess I just never figured on one thing.

A

What?

37
Q

You better go help her with the dishes.

A

Oh! I’ll do the dishes, B!

37
Q

. . . I’m not mad. you’re the one is mad.

A

Don’t worry about me, Eddie, heh?

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