Act 1 Scene 1 (cont 2)

Question 1

EDDIE enters.

EDDIE. You kids all right?

Answer 1

JAY. Yeah Pop. Fine.

Question 2

ARTY: What’s he want me to do, carry an iron with me?

Answer 2

JAY. He’s afraid of her the same as Ant Bela. Like Ant Bella couldn’t count so good, so instead of two scoops of ice cream in a soda, she’d put in three or for. For the same price. And if Grandma saw it. Wacko! Another couple of IQ points gone. (picks up photo from behind softa) Here, look at this. Ant Gert when she was a kid. See how her head i down. Probably ducking. The old cane was coming at her… You don’t think Ant Gert is a little coconuts too?

Question 3

ARTY. No. She’s just sick. She’s got bad lungs or something.

Answer 3

JAY. Bad lungs, my ey. She can’t talk right. She says the first half of a sentence breathing out and second have sucking in. You’ve seen it.

Question 4

ARTY. Do it for me.

Answer 4

JAY. I don’t want to.

Question 5

ARTY. Do it!

Answer 5

JAY. (Breaths ouit) “Oh hello Jay, how are you? And how is your fater? And (Then he sucks in breadth) - how is your little brother Arty?

Question 6

ARTY. (laughs) I love it! I love it when you do that!

Answer 6

JAY. You know.. I once saw her try to blow out a candle and halfway there she sucked it back ion.

Question 7

ARTY. You didn’t

Answer 7

JAY. With these two eyes. Mom says she talks that way because she’s afraid of Grandma. She never allowed her kids to cry.

Question 8

ARTY. Never?

Answer 8

JAY. Never.