The Glass Menagerie

Question 1

What in Christ’s name am I …..

Answer 1

!! Don’t you use that ….

Question 2

…. supposed to do!

Answer 2

…. expression! Not in my ….

Question 3

Ohhh!

Answer 3

…. presence! Have you gone out of your senses?

Question 4

I have, that’s true, DRIVEN out!

Answer 4

What is the matter with you, you….big….big…. IDIOT!

Question 5

Look! ….I’ve got NO THING, no single thing….

Answer 5

Lower your voice!

Question 6

….in my life here that I can call my OWN! Everything is ….

Answer 6

Stop that shouting!

Question 7

Yesterday you confiscated my books! You had the nerve to ….

Answer 7

I took that horrible novel back to the library …. yes! That hideous book by that insane Mr. Lawrence. I cannot control the output of diseased minds or people who cater to them …. BUT I WON’T ALLOW SUCH FILTH BROUGHT INTO MY HOUSE! No, no, no, no, no!

Question 8

House, house! Who pays the rent on it, who makes a slave of himself to ….

Answer 8

!!!! Don’t you DARE to ….

Question 9

No, no, I mustn’t say things! I’VE got to just ….

Answer 9

Let me tell you ….

Question 10

I don’t want to hear any more!

Answer 10

You WILL hear more, you ….

Question 11

No, I won’t hear more, I’m going out!

Answer 11

You come right back in ….

Question 12

Out, out, out! Because I’m ….

Answer 12

Come back here, Tom Wingfield! I’m not through talking to you!

Question 13

Oh, go ….

Answer 13

You’re going to listen, and no more insolence from you! I’m at the end of my patience!

Question 14

What do you think I’m at? Aren’t I supposed to have any patience to reach the end of, Mother? I know, I know. It seems unimportant to you, what I’m DOING …. what I WANT to do …. having a little DIFFERENCE between them! You don’t think that ….

Answer 14

I think you’ve been doing things that you’re ashamed of. That’s why you act like this. I don’t believe that you go every night to the movies. Nobody goes to the movies night after night. Nobody in their right minds goes to the moveis as often as you pretend to. People don’t go to the movies at nearly midnight, and movies don’t let out at two A.M. Come in stumbling. Muttering to yourself like a maniac! You get three hours’ sleep and then go to work. Oh, I can picture the way you’re doing down there. Moping, doping, because you’re in no condition.

Question 15

No, I’m in no condition!

Answer 15

What right have you got to jeopardize your job? Jeopardize the security of us all? How do you think we’d manage if you were ….

Question 16

Listen! You think I’m crazy about the WAREHOUSE? You think I’m in love with the Continental Shoemakers? You think I want to spend fifty-five YEARS down there in that …. CELOTEX INTERIOR! with …. FLUORESCENT ….TUBES! Look! I’d rather somebody picked up a crowbar and battered out my brains …. than go back mornings! I GO! Every time you come in yelling that God-damn “RISE AND SHINE!” “RISE AND SHINE!” I say to myself “How LUCKY DEAD people are!” But I get up, I GO! For sixty-five dollars a month I give up all that I dream of doing and being EVER! And you say self …. SELF’S all I ever think of. Why, listen, if self is what I thought of, Mother, I’d be where he is …. GONE! As far as the system of transportation reaches! Don’t grab at me, Mother!

Answer 16

Where are you going?

Question 17

I’m going to the MOVIES!

Answer 17

I don’t believe that lie!