resist or deny it
Quit fighting it. You know you're crazy about me.Manhattan · 1979 — 第 13 / 23 章 · 2'25" · B2
Mary Ends It With Yale, Explained：a no-win situation
Mary tells the married man she has been seeing that she cannot keep going. She lists the unfairness — his marriage, the weekend he missed — and insists she is not a home wrecker. The dialogue is interrupted by phone calls, and it ends with him needing to think things through.
あらすじ
Mary confronts the married man she has been involved with and says she cannot do it any more. She admits the situation is a no-win one, insists she deserves better, and refuses to be a home wrecker. Phone calls interrupt them, and the scene ends with him saying he has to think things through.
注目の表現
bullshita no-win situationat the wrong timebring something by
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このシーンの表現
a no-win situation
a lose-lose situation
Caught between Emily and Mary, Yale says the whole thing is impossible to win.
Rushing the report risks errors, delaying it risks the client; it is a no-win situation.
このシーンの他の表現
- bullshit
nonsense (vulgar)
- at the wrong time
the timing was off
- bring something by
drop something off
- have been married
have been husband and wife
- think something through
consider something fully
このシーンのメモ一覧
36 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ
the ideal match for
I am. You're... You're God's answer to Job.cannot take it any longer
Look, this is crazy. I just can't do this any more. It's really bullshit!The t in can't often drops, and do this runs together.
Look, this is crazy. I just can't do this any more. It's really bullshit!Sit around links up, and around like blurs into one sound.
You're married and I expected to see you this weekend and I sit around like I've nothing to do, so I called Isaac. We went for a walk.a lose-lose situation
Caught between Emily and Mary, Yale says the whole thing is impossible to win.
Oh, it's not your fault. What the hell. It's a no-win situation.oh well, whatever — A shrug of resignation; too casual for formal settings.
Oh, it's not your fault. What the hell. It's a no-win situation.merit more than this
It's just I'm beautiful and I'm bright and I deserve better!hypothetical if: What if with a past tense floats a hypothetical action rather than a real plan.
- What if I took some action? - No!someone who breaks up a marriage
I'm not a home wrecker.end up caught in it
I don't know how I got into this. I guess we met at the wrong time.The t in got flaps, so got into sounds like god-into.
I don't know how I got into this. I guess we met at the wrong time.drop something off
On the phone, Yale tells someone to drop the manuscript by on Thursday.
Well... why don't you bring it by on Thursday and I'll read it then, OK?leading nowhere
Waffles! Will you stop that now? We're just going no place. Excuse me.constantly
And I'm thinking about you all the time.an exclamation, mildly profane — An exclamation some people find offensive; avoid it in polite company.
I don't wa... Christ. I don't wanna hear it.have been husband and wife
Mary contrasts her own family: her parents have been married forty-three years with no cheating.
My parents have been married 43 years. Nobody cheats at all. Hello?present perfect: The present perfect spans from the wedding to now, stressing the ongoing state.
My parents have been married 43 years. Nobody cheats at all. Hello?that could not happen
No... Well, I think that'd be impossible.an exclamation of dismay — A casual groan between friends; not for formal talk.
Oh, man. Waffles!an inconvenient moment
Please, just don't. This is really a bad time... Waffles! ...a bad time for me.consider something fully
Before hanging up, Yale says he has to think the whole thing through, stalling a decision.
I gotta think things through here.have got to — Spoken shorthand; too casual for formal writing.
I gotta think things through here.should not have done it
- Obviously I shouldn't have come here. - Well, no, probably not.modal perfect: Shouldn't have done looks back with regret at a past choice.
- Obviously I shouldn't have come here. - Well, no, probably not.「Mary Ends It With Yale」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene is a break-up that keeps being interrupted by ordinary life: a colleague on the phone, then the analyst. That noise is the point. Mary keeps saying she is finished — "I just can't do this any more" — and then admits why it is hard: he is married, and being the other woman makes her into something she does not want to be. Her claim that the situation is 'a no-win situation' captures the trap: staying hurts, leaving hurts, and neither choice restores her self-respect. The Bible joke at the start shows the two of them at their best, witty and easy; everything after it shows why that ease cannot last. When he says he is thinking about her all the time while he is away with his wife, the contradiction is out in the open. The last line, that he needs to think things through, is the non-answer she has been expecting.
Theme
BetrayalMary ends an affair because being the other woman turns her into someone she refuses to be.
HeartbreakThe break-up is full of affection on both sides, which makes the 'no-win situation' feel less like a slogan and more like a fact.
このチャプターで学べること
- Mary's anger and her softness arrive in the same call.
- Yale names the deadlock instead of choosing a side.
- Family history is used as a shield and a wound at once.
- The dog Waffles keeps interrupting the fight.
発音のポイント
- can't do this — The t in can't often drops, and do this runs together.
- sit around like — Sit around links up, and around like blurs into one sound.
- got into this — The t in got flaps, so got into sounds like god-into.
Oh, it's not your fault. What the hell. It's a no-win situation.Her summary of the affair: no one is to blame, and at the same time there is no choice that ends well.
It's just I'm beautiful and I'm bright and I deserve better!Her burst of self-worth: the affair is beneath what she thinks she is worth, and she says it out loud.
I'm not a home wrecker.Her line in the sand: she will not be the woman who breaks up a family, whatever her feelings.
I don't know how I got into this. I guess we met at the wrong time.Her explanation that avoids blaming either of them: the relationship failed because of timing rather than because of who they are.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Mary call it a no-win situation?
Because every option costs her something. Staying means being the other woman, leaving means losing him, and neither choice gets her the relationship she actually wants.
Why is the offer to take action refused?
Because someone says they are not a home wrecker, meaning they will not be the reason a marriage ends. The line draws the boundary that makes the affair impossible to continue.
Why does Mary mention her family from Philadelphia?
She is explaining how far this affair is from her background. Her parents have been married forty-three years and no one cheats, so being the other woman is foreign to her.
Why do phone calls keep interrupting?
They show how embedded the two of them are in ordinary lives: Yale is at the shore with his wife's family, and Mary has to handle work and her analyst. The affair competes with everything else.
What does Yale mean by needing to think things through?
It is his answer when Mary asks him to act. He does not commit to leaving or to staying, which is the same evasion that has kept the affair going.
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