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The O’Donnell siblings have all returned home to attend their sister Claire’s wedding. However, the wedding has now been postponed following their father’s sudden death. This scene takes place immediately after the funeral. Alice notes that there weren’t many present at the funeral, reflecting their diminishing status and role within the community. There was a man there that she didn’t recognize and she is shocked when her husband (who is a local man) informs her that the stranger is the man
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START: Alice: It wasn’t exactly the biggest funeral ever seen in Ballybeg, was it?
Casimir: Did you notice--the whole village shut down.
Alice: For the minute it took the hearse to pass through. And as Sister Therese would say: “The multitude in the church was a little empty, too.”
Casimir: I thought the Requiem Mass very moving.
[...]
END: Eamon: Jerry.
Alice: Who?
Eamon: Jerry McLaughlin.
Alice: Who’s Jerry Mc--? Not--?
(Eamon nods)
For God’s sake! But the man could be her father, Judith!
Judith: Easy.
Brian Friel. Aristocrats. The Gallery Press, 1990. p.83.
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