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In the wild garden of a gothic New Orleans mansion, an aging southern widow, Mrs. Violet Venable, meets with Dr. Cukrowicz (who insists that she calls him Doctor Sugar for ease). Mrs. Venable is greatly distressed by the recent death of her son, Sebastian, while he traveled abroad with his cousin, Catharine Holly. She blames Catharine totally for Sebastian’s death and has heard the horrifying story she has been telling everyone about how Sebastian died. Mrs. Venable is determined to protect her
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START: DOCTOR: Mrs Venable? Did your son have a – well – what kind of a personal, well, private life did –
MRS VENABLE: That’s a question I wanted you to ask me.
DOCTOR: Why?
MRS VENABLE: I haven’t heard the girl’s story except indirectly in a watered-down version, being too ill to go to hear it directly, but I’ve gathered enough to know that it’s a hideous attack on my son’s moral character which, being dead, he can’t defend himself from.
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END: MRS VENABLE [laughs, throwing her head back]: Name it that – I don’t care – There’s just two things to remember. She’s a destroyer. My son was a creator! – Now if my honesty’s shocked you – pick up your little black bag without the subsidy in it, and run away from this garden! – Nobody’s heard our conversation but you and I, Doctor Sugar …
Tennessee Williams. Suddenly Last Summer. Penguin Modern Classics (electronic version), 2009. pp.21-26.
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