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When Sam Kaplan spots Vincent Jones assaulting Rose Maurrant in the street outside, he runs outside to defend her. Vincent throws him to the ground, but the fight is cut short by the return of Vincent’s mother, Emma Jones. The Joneses go into their apartment, and Rose comforts Sam.
Rose tries to cheer Sam up by telling him how great she thinks he is. He is so different to all these people, that he should not worry about people like Vincent. Afterall, Sam is educated and smart, and that will
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Start: ROSE: It’s alright Sam. Everything’s all right. Why should you pay any attention to a big tough like that? [SAM does not answer. ROSE caresses his hair and he grows calmer.] He’s nothing but a loafer, you know that. What do you care what he says?
SAM: [without raising his head] I’m a coward.
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End: ROSE [eagerly]. Yes, that’s it! That’s just what I felt like doing - breaking off a little bunch of the flowers. But then I thought, maybe a policeman or somebody would see me, and then I’d get into trouble; so I didn’t.
Rice, Elmer, Street Scene, Hill and Wang, 1965, pp.104-106
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