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Phillip Gellburg is waiting for Dr. Harry Hyman in his office to discuss his wife’s condition. Before Dr. Hyman arrives, he is greeted by Margaret, Hyman’s wife. While Phillip is still, quiet, and intense, she is talkative, energetic, and unabashed. She chews his ear off, chatting away and seemingly unaware that he does not want to talk. Margaret frustrated Phillip throughout this scene as she continually mistakes his surname for the more common name of Goldberg. Margaret knows Phillip and his
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START: MARGARET: He’ll be right with you, he’s just changing. Can I get you something? Tea?
GELLBURG: (faint reprimand) He said five o’clock sharp.
MARGARET: He was held up in the hospital, that new union’s pulled a strike, imagine? A strike in a hospital? It’s incredible. And his horse went lame.
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END: MARGARET: (hits her own head) Gellburg, excuse me! --It practically sounds like Goldberg…
GELLBURG: No-no, look in the phonebook, it’s the only one, G-e-l-l…
(Enter Dr. Hyman)
MARGARET: (with a little wave to Gellburg) Be seeing you!
GELLBURG: Be in good health.
For full extended scene, please refer to the script edition cited here: Arthur Miller, Broken Glass, Methuen Drama, 1995, pp. 1-3
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