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Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
Genders
  • Female: 2
  • Male: 0
Style
Comedic
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
1950s, Serafina's house
Act/Scene
Act One, Scene One

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Assunta: Is it true what I told you?

Serafina: Yes, it is true, but nobody needed to tell me. Assunta, I’ll tell you something which maybe you won’t believe.

Assunta: It is impossible to tell me anything that I don't believe.

[... … …]

End:

Assunta: A woman must not have a heart that is too big to swallow! (She crosses to the door.)

Serafina: Stay with me!

Assunta: I have to visit a woman who drank rat poison because of a heart too big for her to swallow.

For the full extended scene, please refer to: Tennessee Williams, The Rose Tattoo. New Directions, 2010. pp. 10-13.

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