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Beaches · 1988 — 第 19 / 30 章 · 3'45" · B2

CC and Hillary Make Up, Explained：in the toilet

Hillary tracks CC down to apologize for returning her letters, but CC refuses to accept it: "Thank you very, very much for forgiving me, but I don't forgive you." Only when Hillary admits she was jealous — "I couldn't see straight" — do the two finally reach each other.

あらすじ

After years of silence, Hillary finds CC at a bar and apologizes for sending her letters back. CC is cold — 'Go home,' she says — and lists her own wounds: a career 'in the toilet' and unanswered letters. The standoff breaks when Hillary confesses she was jealous of CC's talent and success, and CC admits the fault was hers too.

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注目の表現

don't forgive youwhat the hellin the toiletgot to do with it

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  20. ❝ 独白CC's list of grievances7 行練習ページ ↗
  27. ❝ 独白Hillary's confession5 行練習ページ ↗
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このシーンの表現

in the toilet

in a terrible state

CC asks whether Hillary knew her career was in the toilet.

After the scandal, the company's reputation was in the toilet.

このシーンの他の表現

  • don't forgive you

    a polite-sounding refusal

  • what the hell

    a sharp way to say what on earth

  • got to do with it

    how is that relevant

  • did me in

    to exhaust or defeat someone

  • torture yourself

    to punish yourself mentally

このシーンのメモ一覧

65 行のセリフに 26 件のメモ

表現 · B1feel awful for doing something

to feel guilty about it

I feel awful for sending your letters back.
表現 · A2send something back

to return something

I feel awful for sending your letters back.
発音don't even

Don't even blends together, with the t almost gone.

I don't even know what happened in New York. I don't care anymore.
表現 · A2forgive someone

to pardon someone

I forgive you.
表現 · A2have nothing to say to someone

to have no words for someone

I have nothing to say to you.
表現 · A2have something to say

to have a point to make

I do have something to say.
スラング · B2damned

a mild curse of annoyance — A mild curse; too rough for formal speech.

You and your damned letters.
表現 · B1make someone feel important

to make someone feel valued

Just to get them made me feel important.
スラング · B1crappy

lousy or poor quality — Casual and dismissive; avoid it at work.

All your crappy stories, your big dreams!
表現 · B2be in the toilet

in a terrible state

CC asks whether Hillary knew her career was in the toilet.

Did you know my career was in the toilet?
文法 · B2If you'd only answered

unreal conditional: The unreal past shows regret: you did not answer, and I wish you had.

If you'd only answered one, just one!
表現 · B1fight back

to resist or retaliate

I don't know how to fight back. I'm not strong like you.
表現 · A2important to someone

to matter to someone

That friendship was more important to me than anything.
表現 · B1believe in something

to have faith in it

I trusted it. I believed in it.
発音believed in it

Believed in it runs together as one stream.

I trusted it. I believed in it.
表現 · B2can't see straight

to be too overwhelmed to focus

I was so jealous of you I couldn't see straight!
文法 · B2so jealous of you I couldn't see straight

result clause: So plus adjective sets up a result: her envy blinded her.

I was so jealous of you I couldn't see straight!
発音couldn't see

The t in couldn't drops before see.

I was so jealous of you I couldn't see straight!
表現 · B2what's X got to do with it

how is that relevant

CC cuts Hillary's tearful tangent by asking what yodeling has to do with anything.

What's yodeling got to do with it?
表現 · B1drive someone nuts

to make someone crazy

You were right. When John looked at you, it used to drive me nuts.
スラング · B1nuts

crazy or frantic — Informal; not for formal writing.

You were right. When John looked at you, it used to drive me nuts.
表現 · B2do someone in

to exhaust or defeat someone

CC says the breakup really did her in, leaving her wrecked.

It really did me in.
表現 · B1worst of all

the worst part is

Worst of all, Arthur died.
文法 · B2when really I loved him

contrast clause: When really marks the gap between what she assumed and what she felt.

No, but I always thought I hated him, when really I loved him.
表現 · B1show someone affection

to show someone love

There was no time for me to show him any affection.
表現 · B2torture oneself

to punish yourself mentally

Hillary tells CC not to torture herself over the dog she thinks she neglected.

You shouldn't torture yourself like this.

「CC and Hillary Make Up」を読み解く

What's really going on

The reunion is really two apologies that can't meet in the middle. Hillary opens by owning her mistake — she feels 'awful for sending your letters back' — and even offers blanket forgiveness, but CC hears it as one more thing taken for granted, and answers, 'Thank you very, very much for forgiving me, but I don't forgive you.' What finally cracks the standoff is not an apology but an admission of envy: 'I was so jealous of you I couldn't see straight!' Hillary's confession flips the power in the room, because it tells CC the letters mattered and that she was, in fact, seen. Once that is said, CC can answer, 'It was all my fault,' and the fight becomes the friendship again. The closing joke about Arthur, revealed to be a dog, keeps the scene from turning saccharine.

Theme

FriendshipA wounded friendship is repaired only when jealousy is named out loud, not when apologies are offered.
TrustCC felt a friendship was withdrawn without discussion, and trust has to be rebuilt from admission.

このチャプターで学べること

  • In the toilet means sunk to a low
  • The thank-you is irony, not politeness
  • Drive me nuts means make me crazy
  • Got to do with it asks what it matters

発音のポイント

  • don't even — Don't even blends together, with the t almost gone.
  • believed in it — Believed in it runs together as one stream.
  • couldn't see — The t in couldn't drops before see.
Thank you very, very much for forgiving me, but I don't forgive you.

CC throws Hillary's easy forgiveness back at her: being pardoned for something she never explained is no pardon at all.

I was so jealous of you I couldn't see straight!

Hillary's confession that envy, not indifference, caused the silence between them.

No, but I always thought I hated him, when really I loved him.

CC on her dog Arthur: she mistook love for irritation and never said the affectionate thing in time.

Did you know my career was in the toilet?

CC's proof of how little Hillary knew: she was failing while the letters went unanswered.

このシーンについての質問

Why did CC refuse Hillary's forgiveness?

Hillary apologizes for returning the letters and says she forgives CC for whatever was said. CC rejects it, because Hillary never let her explain and treated the friendship as something she could withdraw.

Why did Hillary stop writing?

Not out of indifference but envy. She admits she was 'so jealous' of CC's talent and success that she couldn't see straight, which is why she returned the letters.

What does 'in the toilet' mean?

It means something is at rock bottom or in terrible shape. CC asks whether Hillary knew her career 'was in the toilet,' meaning she was failing at the time.

Who is Arthur?

Arthur turns out to be CC's Great Dane, not a person. He was hit by a laundry truck, and CC grieves that she always thought she hated him when she really loved him.

How do CC and Hillary reconcile?

Once Hillary admits her jealousy, the standoff breaks. CC says the fault was hers too and acknowledges that John was clearly in love with Hillary, which Hillary had never seen.

フォエバー・フレンズ · 全 30 章

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