Act 1 scene 3 Flashcards by Anna Ressler

If you wanna come bowlin’ later we’re goin’ Flatbush Avenue.

Hey, Eddie - what a picture we saw! Did we laught!

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Where’d you go?

Paramount. It was with those two guys, y’know? That. . .

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Brooklyn Paramount?

Sure, the Brooklyn Paramount - I told you we wasn’t goin’ to New York.

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Eddie, we only walk together in the streets. She teaches me.

You know what he can’t get over? That there’s no fountains in Brooklyn!

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Fountains?

In Italy, he says, every town’s got fountains, and they meet there. And you know what? They got oranges on the trees where he comes from, and lemons. Imagine? on the trees? I mean it’s interesting. But he’s crazy for New York.

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. . . Maybe you can come too. I want to see all those lights.

Why don’t you talk to him, Eddie? He blesses you, and you don’t talk to him hardly.

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I bless you and you don’t talk to me.

I don’t talk to you? What do you mean!

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I don’t see you no more. I come home you’re runnin’ around some place. . .

Well, he want to see everything, that’s all, so we go. . . you mad at me?

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No. It’s just I used to come home, you was always there. Now, I turn around, you’re a big girl. I don’t know how to talk to you.

Why?

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I don’t know, you’re runnin’, you’re runnin’, Katie. I don’t think you listening any more to me.

Ah, Eddie, sure I am. What’s the matter? You don’t like him?

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You like him, Katie.

Yeah. I like him.

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You like him.

Yeah. What’re you got against him? I don’t understand. He only blesses you.

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He don’t bless me, Katie.

He does! You’re like a father to him!

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Katie.

What, Eddie?

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You gonna marry him?

. . . I don’t know. We just been. . . goin’ around, that’s all. What’re you got against him, Eddie? Please, tell me. What?

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He don’t respect you?

Why?

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Katie. . . if you wasn’t an orphan, wouldn’t he ask your father’s permission before he run around with you like this?

Oh, well, he didn’t think you’d mind.

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He knows I mind, but it don’t bother him if I mind, don’t you see that?

No, Eddie, he’s got all kinds of respect for me. And you too! We walk across the street he takes my arm – he almost bows to me! You got him all wrong, Eddie; I mean it, you. . .

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Katie, he’s only bowin’ to his passport

His passport!

That’s right. . . The guy is lookin’ for his break, that’s all he’s lookin’ for.

Oh, no, Eddie, I don’t think so.

You don’t think so! . . . next time you see him it’ll be for divorce!

Eddie, he never said a word about his papers or. . .

You mean he’s supposed to tell you that!?

I don’t think he’s even thinking about it.

What better for him to think about! He could be picked up any day here and he’s back pushin’ taxis up the hill!

No, I don’t believe it.

Katie, don’t break my heart, listen to me. . .

I don’t want to hear it.

Katie, listen

He loves me!

Don't say that, for God's sake! - this is the oldest racket in the country

I don't believe it!

They been pullin' this since the immigration law was put in! They grab a green kid that don't know nothin' and they

I don't believe it and I wish to hell you'd stop it!

Listen, Catherine. What are you goin to do with yourself?

I don't know.

Don't tell me you don't know; you're not a baby any more, what are you going to do with yourself?

He won't listen to me. . .

I don't understand this. He's not your father, Catherine. I don't understand what's goin on here.

What am I going to do, just kick him in the face with it?

Look, honey, you wanna get married, or don't you wanna get married? What are you worried about, Katie?

I don't know, B. It just seems wrong if he's against it so much.

Sit down, honey, I want to tell you something. Here, sit down. Was there ever any fella he liked for you? There wasn't was there?

But he says Rodolpho's just after his papers. . .

Look, he'll say anything; what does he care what he says? if it was a prince came here for you it would be no different. you know that, don't you?

Yeah, I guess.

So what does that mean?

What.

It means you gotta be your own self more. you still think you're a little girl, honey. But nobody else can make up your mind for you any more, you understand? You gotta give him to understand that he can't give you orders no more.

Yeah, but how am I going to do that? He think I'm a baby. . .

Because you think you're a baby. I told you fifty times already, you can't act the way you act. You still walk around in front of him in your slip. . .

Well I forgot. . .

Well you can't do it. Or like you sit on the edge of the bathtub talkin to him when he's shavin' in his underwear

When'd I do that?

I seen you in there this morning!

Oh, well I wanted to tell him something and I. . .

I know, honey. But if you act like a baby and he be treatin' you like a baby. Like when he comes home sometimes you throw yourself at him like when you was twelve years old. . .

Well, I like to see him and I'm happy so i. . .

Look, I'm not tellin' you what to do, honey, but. . .

No, you could tell me, B! Gee, I'm all mixed up. See I . . . he looks so sad now and it hurts me. . .

Well look, Katie, if it's goin' to hurt you so much you're gonna end up an old maid here.

No!!!

I'm tellin' you, I'm not makin' a joke. . . So you'll act different now, heh?

Yeah, I will. I'll remember.

Because it ain't only up to him, Katie, you understand? I told him the same thing already. . .

What?

That he should let you go. But, you see, if only I tell him, he thinks I'm just bawlin' him out, or maybe I'm jealous or somethin', you know?

He said you was jealous?

No, I'm just sayin' maybe that's what he thinks. You think I'm jealous of you, honey?

No! It's the first I thought of it.

Well you should have thought of it before. . . and now the time came when you said good-bye. All right?

All right. If I can.

Honey. . . you gotta.

Okay.