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START: How could she be frightened of me...

Philip Gellburg

Broken Glass

Arthur Miller

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Scene 11
Time & Place
Brooklyn, New York, 1938
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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START: How could she be frightened of me! I worship her! (Quickly controlling) How could everything turn out to be the opposite--I made my son in this bed and now I’m dying in it…(Breaks off, downing a cry) My thoughts keep flying around--everything from years ago keeps coming back like it was last week.
[... …]
END: She was a knockout; sometimes walking down a street I couldn’t believe I was married to her. Listen… (
Breaks off; with some diffidence
) You’re an educated man, I only went to high school--I wish we could talk about the Jews.

For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Arthur Miller, Broken Glass, Methuen Drama, 1995, p.68.

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