Act 1 44-54

Question 1

Florence
You’re wrong. I happen to know I hate my guts.

Olive
Come on, Florence. I’ve never seen anyone so in love. If you had two more legs, you’d take yourself out dancing.

Answer 1

Florence
I thought you were my friend.

Question 2

Olive
I am. That’s why I can talk to you like this. I love you almost as much as you do.

Answer 2

Florence
Then help me.

Question 3

Olive
How can I help you when I can’t help myself? You think you’re impossible to live with? I was sloppy since I was a kid. I got married in a white gown with Coca-Cola stains on it…My mind is into other things…I like to write, I like to paint, I like photography. I don’t like to clean up. I leave a mess after I read a book.

Answer 3

Florence
I don’t do it for myself. I liked Sidney to come home to a clean house. I want my children growing up having respect for things. How else will they learn?

Question 4

Olive
But what’s the point of it all? When you’re dead, they’re going to throw dirt on you anyway.

Answer 4

Florence
If only I could change …. Maybe I should call Sidney.

Question 5

Olive
What for?

Answer 5

Florence
To talk it out again. Maybe we left something unsaid.

Question 6

Olive
Where’s your self-respect? You want to crawl back on your hands and knees?

Answer 6

Florence
He wouldn’t notice. He’d think I was scrubbing the floors.

Question 7

Olive
Flourence, listen to me…Tonight you’re going to sleep here. Tomorrow you’re going to go home, pack up your sinus medicines and your after shave lotions and move in here with me.

Answer 7

Florence
Won’t I be in the way?

Question 8

Olive
Of course you will.

Answer 8

Florence
I’m a pest.

Question 9

Olive
I know you’re a pest. I was the one who gave you the name.

Answer 9

Florence
Then why do you want me to live with you?

Question 10

Olive
Because - I can’t stand living by myself either…..Because I’m lonely, that’s why.

Answer 10

Florence
I never thought of you being lonely. You have so many friends.