Glass Menagerie Scene 6 pt 2

Question 1

JIM: What was the matter?

Answer 1

TOM: Oh- with Laura? Laura is- terribly shy.

Question 2

JIM: Shy, huh? It’s unusual to meet a shy girl nowadays. I don’t believe you ever mentioned you had a sister.

Answer 2

TOM: Well, now you know. I have one. Here is the Post Dispatch. You want a piece of it?

Question 3

JIM: Uh-huh.

Answer 3

TOM: What piece? The comics?

Question 4

JIM: Sports! Ole Dizzy Dean is on his bad behavior.

Answer 4

TOM: Yeah?

Question 5

JIM: Where are you going?

Answer 5

TOM: I’m going out on the terrace.

Question 6

JIM: You know, Shakespeare- I’m going to sell you a bill of goods!

Answer 6

TOM: What goods?

Question 7

JIM: A course I’m taking.

Answer 7

TOM: Huh?

Question 8

JIM: In public speaking! You and me, we’re not the warehouse type.

Answer 8

TOM: Thanks- that’s good news. But what has public speaking got to do with it?

Question 9

JIM: It fits you for- executive positions!

Answer 9

TOM: Awww.

Question 10

JIM: I tell you it’s done a helluva lot for me.

Answer 10

TOM: In what respect?

Question 11

JIM: In every! Ask yourself what is the difference between you an’ me and men in the office down front? Brains? - No! - Ability? - No! Then what? Just one little thing-

Answer 11

TOM: What is that one little thing?

Question 12

JIM: Primarily it amounts to- social poise! Being able to square up to people and hold your own on any social level!
Mr. Mendoza was speaking to me about you.

Answer 12

TOM: Favorably?

Question 13

JIM: What do you think?

Answer 13

TOM: Well-

Question 14

JIM: You’re going to be out of a job if you don’t wake up.

Answer 14

TOM: I am waking up-

Question 15

JIM: You show no signs-

Answer 15

TOM: The signs are interior.
I’m planning to change. I’m right at the point of committing myself to a future that doesn’t include the warehouse and Mr. Mendoza or even a night-school course in public speaking.

Question 16

JIM: What are you gassing about?

Answer 16

TOM: I’m tired of the movies.

Question 17

JIM: Movies!

Answer 17

TOM: Yes, movies! Look at them- All of those glamorous people- having adventures- You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody while everybody sits in a dark room and watches them have them! Yes, until there’s a war. That’s when adventure becomes available to the masses! Then the people in the dark room come out of the dark room to have some adventures themselves- goody goody! But I’m not patient. I don’t want to wait till then. I’m tired of the movies and I am about to move!

Question 18

JIM: Move?

Answer 18

TOM: Yes.

Question 19

JIM: When?

Answer 19

TOM: Soon!

Question 20

JIM: Where? Where?

Answer 20

TOM: I’m starting to boil inside. I know I seem dreamy, but inside- well, I’m boiling. Whenever I pick up a shoe, I shudder a little thinking how short life is and what I am doing! Whatever that means, I know it doesn’t mean shoes- except as something to wear on a traveler’s feet! Look-

Question 21

JIM: What?

Answer 21

TOM: I’m a member.

Question 22

JIM: The Union of Merchant Seamen.

Answer 22

TOM: I paid my dues this month, instead of the light bill.

Question 23

JIM: You will regret it when they turn the lights off.

Answer 23

TOM: I won’t be here.

Question 24

JIM: How about your mother?

Answer 24

TOM: I’m like my father. The bastard son of a bastard! Did you notice how he’s grinning in his picture in there? And he’s been absent going on sixteen years!

Question 25

JIM: You’re just talking, you drip. How does your mother feel about it?

Answer 25

TOM: Shhh! Here comes Mother! Mother is not acquainted with my plans!