how are things
- Miss Mollie Malloy. - Hello, Mollie. How's tricks?His Girl Friday · 1940 — 第 8 / 18 章 · 2'32" · B2
Mollie Rounds on the Reporters, Explained：make a fool out of someone
Mollie Malloy storms the press room to make the reporters hear her: she never loved Earl Williams, never agreed to marry him on the gallows, and only met him once. "He never once laid a hand on me," she insists, while the men keep playing cards.
あらすじ
On the night before Earl Williams is to hang, his supposed girlfriend Mollie Malloy walks into the courthouse press room and confronts the reporters she says invented their romance. She tells them she met Williams only once, took him in out of the rain, and that he talked all night and never touched her.
注目の表現
tear your face opena swell storymake a fool out of someoneon the job
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このシーンの表現
make a fool out of someone
humiliate or deceive someone
Mollie tells the whole room she is done being played for a fool by their stories.
They keep making a fool out of me at every meeting.
このシーンの他の表現
- tear your face open
threaten to claw someone
- a swell story
sarcasm about the story
- on the job
employed, at work
- lay a hand on someone
to hit or touch someone
- it's a wonder
it is surprising that
このシーンのメモ一覧
52 行のセリフに 24 件のメモ
How's tricks runs together as one quick phrase.
- Miss Mollie Malloy. - Hello, Mollie. How's tricks?visit someone
- I've been looking for you tramps. - Come to pay a call on Williams?smart alecks — A mocking label for people acting clever; keep it casual.
A lot of wise guys, ain't you?interrupt the game
You're breaking up the game. What do you want?calm down
Keep your shirt on.unreal conditional: An unreal conditional; the standard form would be if you were, but Mollie says if you was.
If you was worth breaking my nails on, I'd tear your face open.humiliate or deceive someone
Mollie tells the whole room she is done being played for a fool by their stories.
You crumbs have been making a fool out of me long enough.worthless people — A contemptuous insult; not for polite company.
You crumbs have been making a fool out of me long enough.time clause: Since marks the starting point of an action that continues into the present perfect.
You've been around that cuckoo since they threw him in the death house.crazy person — Slang for someone unstable; offensive if said to a face.
You've been around that cuckoo since they threw him in the death house.on the eve of something
...like a sick dog, the day before the shooting.employed, at work
Mollie recalls Earl's story of being fired after fourteen years on the job.
He told me about being fired after being on the job for 14 years.take someone upstairs
I brought him up to my room because it was warm.to hit or touch someone
Mollie defends Earl, insisting he never touched her that night, denying the scandal.
He never once laid a hand on me.treat someone well
Because Earl treated me decent, and not like an animal.kill someone with a blow
It's a wonder lightning don't come down and strike you all dead.The t in don't often drops before come down.
It's a wonder lightning don't come down and strike you all dead.intend no harm
A poor little fellow that never meant nobody no harm.relative clause; double negative: A relative clause modifies fellow, and the double negative nobody no harm simply means no harm.
A poor little fellow that never meant nobody no harm.tell jokes
Sitting with the angel of death, and you cracking jokes.Link angel of and weaken of to a schwa.
Sitting with the angel of death, and you cracking jokes.are not — Nonstandard speech; avoid it in writing.
They ain't human.print lies
All they're doing is writing lies.「Mollie Rounds on the Reporters」を読み解く
What's really going on
The comedy is that Mollie is the only person in the room telling the truth, and nobody wants to hear it. The reporters need a story, not a fact: a woman who loved a condemned man sells papers, and so they wrote the love nest, the soul mate, the gallows wedding. When she says "He never once laid a hand on me," she is pleading her own respectability, but to the press room it is only a duller version of the story they already ran. Their reply, "Everybody knows you're his girlfriend," shows the machine cannot be argued with. Her curse — that lightning should strike them all dead — is the one language they understand, and even that becomes a joke. What she wants is to be believed; what they want is the next edition.
Theme
LiesReporters turn Mollie's one kind night into a love story, and when she denies it they simply print the romance anyway.
JusticeA woman who showed a condemned man ordinary decency is punished by the press that decides what her story means.
このチャプターで学べること
- A pun on a pain in the neck hides the gallows.
- Mollie's calm retelling is her strongest defence.
- The reporters deflect every charge with a joke.
- Her parting wish for lightning is fury, not faith.
発音のポイント
- How's tricks — How's tricks runs together as one quick phrase.
- don't come down — The t in don't often drops before come down.
- angel of death — Link angel of and weaken of to a schwa.
Sitting with the angel of death, and you cracking jokes.Mollie says the men are joking while a man waits to die beside them; she names their cruelty as the execution approaches.
It's a wonder lightning don't come down and strike you all dead.Her curse on the reporters: she thinks their lying deserves punishment from above, and only thunder would be fair.
You crumbs have been making a fool out of me long enough.Mollie's accusation that the reporters have used her for a story and made her look foolish; crumbs is contemptuous for worthless men.
He never once laid a hand on me.She defends her honor: Earl only talked with her all night and never touched her, despite what the newspapers printed.
Because Earl treated me decent, and not like an animal.The reason she helped him: he was the one man who treated her with ordinary respect, which is why she now defends him.
このシーンについての質問
Why do the reporters keep taunting Mollie if they know they lied?
Because her denial is still usable copy. A girlfriend who says she hardly knew Earl is a smaller story than a girlfriend who loved him, so they mock her to keep the printed version alive and avoid admitting the paper made it up.
Is Mollie Malloy Earl Williams's girlfriend?
No. She says she met him once, the day before the shooting, when he was wandering in the rain. She took him home because it was warm, and he spent the night talking and left in the morning.
What does 'a pain in the neck' mean when the reporter says it here?
It is a dark joke. The phrase usually means a nuisance, but the reporter is using it for the gallows being prepared for Earl — the pain he will soon be in.
Why does Mollie curse the reporters with lightning?
She has run out of arguments. They will not believe her, they joke while a man waits to hang, so she calls on something above them to punish the cruelty she cannot.
Who is the 'boyfriend' the reporters keep mentioning?
Earl Williams, the condemned man the press room is waiting to see hanged. The reporters call him Mollie's boyfriend after their paper ran the invented romance between them.
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第 2 章hard feelingsHildy Quits the Post
第 3 章take the wind out of someone's sailWalter Meets Bruce Baldwin
第 4 章kick the bucketWalter Schemes to Keep Hildy
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第 9 章double-crossingHildy Tears Up Her Story
第 10 章go over the wallEarl Williams Escapes the Jail
第 11 章tear it out of someoneHildy Sells Her Scoop for $450
第 12 章a tissue of liesWalter Bribes the Governor's Messenger
第 13 章lay lowEarl Walks Into the Press Room
第 14 章sitting prettyEarl Hides in the Press Room Desk
第 15 章best interest at heartHildy Chooses the Story Over Bruce
第 16 章kid glovesWalter Double-Crosses Bensinger
第 17 章barking up the wrong treeHartwell Finds the Escape Gun
第 18 章whistle in the darkEarl Is Captured in the Desk第 8 / 18 章 · 残り約 47 分