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This scene is a flashback to the relationship of Paul, the young black con man, and Trent, his connection to the children of each of his targets. Trent and Paul have been seeing each other romantically and Trent, with a wealthy, privileged, boarding school background, finds it alluring to coach Paul in upper class etiquette, speech, and connections. He longs to be connected to someone romantically who his parents will see as worthwhile, so Paul becomes Trent’s project of improvement, something
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Start: Trent: This is the way you must speak. Hear my accent. Hear my voice. Never say you’re going horse-back riding. You say you’re going riding. And don’t say couch. Say sofa. And you say bodd-ill. It’s bottle. Say bottle of beer.
End: Paul: That’s enough for today.
Guare, John, Six Degrees of Separation, Vintage Books, 1994, pp. 76-79.
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