CC Moves Hillary Into Her Apartment, Explained：It just hit me

What's really going on

The scene announces what kind of friendship this will be: CC gives, Hillary receives, and both pretend it is no big deal. CC never says she wants company; she argues Hillary cannot afford anything better and that Leona would "have a heart attack" if she did not ask. The apartment is a joke — no heat, a super who ignores her, a stolen "veranda" — but CC presents it as if she is doing Hillary a favor. Then Hillary's tears flip the mood, and the film's real subject arrives: she is not upset at the cold, she is overwhelmed by freedom. "It just hit me that I'm free," she says, and "for the first time in my life, I'm doing exactly what I want to do rather than what I've been trained to do." CC's reply, "Then you can stay," turns a rescue into the start of a life together.

Theme

このチャプターで学べること

• To be broke simply means having no money
• All the comforts of home can be said with irony
• Cut down on means to use less of it
• It just hit me marks a sudden realization

発音のポイント

• would have — Would have runs together as wud-uv; the have nearly disappears.
• because I'm — Because is reduced and slides into I'm; do not read word by word.