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START: I worked in the pediatric ward fo...

Margaret Hyman

Broken Glass

Arthur Miller

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Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Scene 10
Time & Place
Brooklyn, New York, 1938
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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START: I worked in the pediatric ward for a couple of years. And sometimes we’d have thirty or forty babies in there at the same time. A day or two old and they’ve already got a personality; this one lays there stiff as a mummy…
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END: The next one is Miss Dreary, already worried about her hemline drooping. And how could it be otherwise--each one has twenty thousand years of the human race backed up behind him...and you expect to change him?

For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Arthur Miller, Broken Glass, Methuen Drama, 1995, p.65

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