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A Passage to India · 1984 — 第 7 / 19 章 · 2'10" · B2

Aziz Shows Fielding His Dead Wife, Explained：call it off

Aziz invites Fielding into his home, shows him a photograph of his dead wife, then asks why Fielding isn't married, has no children, and will leave no name. Fielding answers, "The lady I liked wouldn't marry me. That's the main point," and the two talk about marriage as a joke neither can quite laugh off.

あらすじ

Fielding visits Aziz at his home, where Aziz shows him a photograph of his dead wife and confesses he has nothing else to show. Aziz then interviews his guest about marriage: no wife, no children, no illegitimate children, and a family name about to die out. They joke about finding Fielding a woman, then turn to the costly Marabar expedition and whether to call it off.

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注目の表現

nothing else to showcall it offthe main pointan Oriental

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このシーンの表現

call it off

cancel it

Fielding offers to help cancel the expensive outing, leaving the choice to Aziz.

Please call it off before Friday.

このシーンの他の表現

  • nothing else to show

    nothing left to offer

  • the main point

    the key fact

  • an Oriental

    an old term for an Asian person

  • engaged to

    promised in marriage to

  • excuse the following question

    sorry for asking this

このシーンのメモ一覧

31 行のセリフに 20 件のメモ

表現 · B2believe in something

support a practice

I believe in the purdah, but I would have told her you were my brother.
文法 · B2would have told

past conditional: Would have told describes a hypothetical past action.

I believe in the purdah, but I would have told her you were my brother.
表現 · B2have nothing else to show

nothing left to offer

Aziz shows the photograph and says it is the only thing he has to offer.

I showed her to you because I have nothing else to show.
発音nothing else

Nothing else blends across the words.

I showed her to you because I have nothing else to show.
表現 · B1the main point

the key fact

Fielding gives the reason and then closes the topic with that's the main point.

The lady I liked wouldn't marry me. That's the main point.
表現 · B2excuse the following question

sorry for asking this

Aziz flags his intrusive question first, wrapping rudeness in a polite phrase.

Excuse the following question. Have you any illegitimate children?
表現 · B2die out

disappear completely

- Then your name will die entirely out? - Right.
表現 · C1an Oriental

an old term for an Asian person

Aziz borrows the old colonial word Oriental and turns it back on the English.

This is what an Oriental will never understand.
表現 · B1far too many + plural noun

way too many

- There are far too many children anyway. - Why don't you marry Miss Quested?
スラング · B2Good Lord

good heavens — mild old-fashioned exclamation

- Good Lord! - But she's very nice.
表現 · B1be engaged to someone

promised in marriage to

Aziz jokes about marriage, and Fielding notes she is engaged to the magistrate.

I can't marry her even if I wanted to. She's engaged to the city magistrate.
文法 · B2even if I wanted to

concessive clause: The even-if clause stresses the result would not change.

I can't marry her even if I wanted to. She's engaged to the city magistrate.
表現 · B1take sick leave

take time off for illness

You must not tell Callendar, but last year I took sick leave and I went to Calcutta.
表現 · B2make a recovery

get much better

- There are girls there with breasts... - You've made a remarkable recovery.
スラング · B2chap

man, fellow — old-fashioned British word for a man

- I have, I have. - Please tell your chap to bring my horse.
表現 · A2by the way

incidentally

By the way, about this Marabar expedition. It's going to cost an awful lot.
表現 · B1cost an awful lot

cost a great deal

By the way, about this Marabar expedition. It's going to cost an awful lot.
発音an awful

An awful runs together as one sound.

By the way, about this Marabar expedition. It's going to cost an awful lot.
表現 · B2call something off

cancel it

Fielding offers to help cancel the expensive outing, leaving the choice to Aziz.

Would you like me to help you call it off?
表現 · B1leave something too long

delay something too much

Well, good. Don't leave it too long.

「Aziz Shows Fielding His Dead Wife」を読み解く

What's really going on

This is one of the film's warmest scenes, and also one of its most revealing. Aziz's openness — he shows Fielding the photo of a wife he cannot even name in public — is a gift he immediately turns into an interrogation, asking whether Fielding has children, illegitimate children, a name that will survive him. The questions reveal more about Aziz's own anxieties than about Fielding, who answers with disarming honesty: 'The lady I liked wouldn't marry me. That's the main point.' The line 'This is what an Oriental will never understand' lands as irony, since it is the Englishman who cannot have the family the Indian has. Their bawdy jokes about breasts and arranged women are cover for the real subject: two single men, one widowed young, one disappointed in love, talking around what neither can fix. The offer to help 'call it off' is friendship in the film's usual register — practical, affectionate, and just short of saying what it means.

Theme

FriendshipAziz shares his most private grief, grills Fielding about marriage, and offers help — friendship as blunt, affectionate inquiry.
MarriageBoth men are unmarried for opposite reasons, and their jokes about wives and children circle the loss each carries.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Call it off is how you cancel a plan or event.
  • Engaged to takes the preposition to, not with.
  • Excuse the following question softens a nosy ask.
  • Oriental is dated and can sound colonial today.

発音のポイント

  • nothing else — Nothing else blends across the words.
  • an awful — An awful runs together as one sound.
I showed her to you because I have nothing else to show.

Aziz offers his one precious possession, a photo of his dead wife, as the only hospitality he can afford.

The lady I liked wouldn't marry me. That's the main point.

Fielding's plain account of why he is single: rejected once, he treats the reason as settled and unromantic.

This is what an Oriental will never understand.

A line about an unbridgeable gap between East and West — the film lets its irony sit, since both men are speaking past each other.

I can't marry her even if I wanted to. She's engaged to the city magistrate.

Fielding rules out Adela on a technicality, not on feeling, keeping the suggestion safely at arm's length.

Would you like me to help you call it off?

Offered quietly, this is Fielding's way of caring — sparing Aziz the expense and trouble of the Marabar trip.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Aziz show Fielding his wife's photograph?

It is the only precious thing he has, and he wants to give his English guest something. Because she was kept in purdah, the gesture is unusually intimate.

Why does Aziz ask Fielding such personal questions?

He is curious and a little anxious about his own life. He wants to know why a good man like Fielding never married and whether his family name will end with him.

What does 'an Oriental' mean in this scene?

It was the period term for an Asian or Eastern person, now dated and loaded with colonial attitudes. The film uses it to show how its English characters see India.

Why can't Fielding marry Miss Quested?

She is already engaged to Ronny Heaslop, the city magistrate. Fielding adds that he wouldn't have a chance even if he wanted one.

What does Fielding offer to do about the Marabar expedition?

He offers to help Aziz call it off, since it is going to cost a lot. Aziz refuses, saying the arrangements are nearly complete.

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