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Suddenly, Last Summer · 1959 — 第 11 / 27 章 · 3'34" · B2

Catherine Recalls the Mardi Gras Ball, Explained：make a scene

Catherine tells the doctor how she came to be punished. A man took her home, then said they had better forget it; she rushed back to the Mardi Gras ball and, as she puts it, "I'd gone back to make a scene." She beat him until Sebastian pulled her away.

あらすじ

Under questioning, Catherine describes the Mardi Gras night that ended in her breakdown. A man drove her home, then told her his wife was expecting and they should forget the encounter. She took a taxi back to the Roosevelt Hotel ballroom, found him on the dance floor, and attacked him until her cousin Sebastian carried her away.

InterrogationsAt the doctorConfessingExplainingDoctor & patientB2slowamericanClean
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make a scenepick upfeel sorry fortook me away

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このシーンの表現

make a scene

act out in public

Catherine admits to the doctor that she rushed back to the ball not for her coat but to cause a public scene.

Please don't make a scene in front of the guests.

このシーンの他の表現

  • pick up

    collect or grab something

  • feel sorry for

    pity someone

  • took me away

    led me off

  • in what way

    how exactly

  • deranged

    mentally disturbed

このシーンのメモ一覧

50 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ

表現 · A2take someone home

walk or drive someone home

He took me home.
発音took me home

Link took me together and keep the final m soft.

He took me home.
文法 · B1We'd better

had better: Had better gives a firm suggestion; 'd is the contraction of had.

Then he said an awful thing to me. He said: "We'd better forget it.
表現 · B1be expecting a child

be pregnant

My wife's expecting a child, and..."
表現 · B1rush to a place

hurry to a place

I called a taxi and rushed to the Roosevelt Hotel ballroom.
表現 · A2be still going on

still be happening

The ball was still going on.
表現 · A2pick up something

collect or grab something

Catherine says she believed she had gone back to pick up her coat, though she admits that was never the truth.

I thought I'd gone back to pick up my coat. But I hadn't.
文法 · B1I'd gone back

past perfect: Had gone marks an action earlier than the past moment being described.

I thought I'd gone back to pick up my coat. But I hadn't.
発音pick up

The k links into up, so it sounds like one word.

I thought I'd gone back to pick up my coat. But I hadn't.
表現 · B1make a scene

act out in public

Catherine admits to the doctor that she rushed back to the ball not for her coat but to cause a public scene.

I hadn't gone back for that at all. I'd gone back to make a scene.
表現 · B1come into one's mind

occur to someone

Tell you the first thing that comes into my mind, my poor deranged mind.
発音comes into

The final s links into into, sounding like come-sinto.

Tell you the first thing that comes into my mind, my poor deranged mind.
表現 · A2look like something

resemble something

That shadow on the wall. What does it look like to you?
表現 · A1play a game

do a game

I thought we were gonna play a game.
スラング · A2gonna

going to — Everyday speech shorthand; avoid in formal writing.

I thought we were gonna play a game.
表現 · B1feel sorry for someone

pity someone

Telling the doctor about the girl who lost her honor, Catherine admits she is trying to draw out his pity.

I'm trying to make you feel sorry for her.
発音feel sorry for

For reduces to /fər/ and the three words run together.

I'm trying to make you feel sorry for her.
表現 · A2tell someone about something

give me details about

Tell me about your cousin, Sebastian.
表現 · B2in what way

how exactly

The doctor asks how Catherine loved her cousin, then reframes it with in what way to pin down the nature of the feeling.

How? I mean, in what way did you love him?
表現 · B1the only way to do something

the sole option

The only way he'd accept.
文法 · B2he'd accept

elliptical clause: A fragment keeping only the clause; 'd stands for would.

The only way he'd accept.
表現 · B1try to save someone

attempt to rescue someone

- I tried to save him, doctor. - Save him from what?
表現 · B1a sort of something

a kind of

Explaining why Sebastian wanted to die, Catherine says he was completing a kind of image of himself, and she reaches for a sort of twice.

Completing a sort of image he had of himself...
文法 · B2he had of himself

relative clause: A reduced relative clause describing the image he held of himself.

Completing a sort of image he had of himself...
表現 · C1a sacrifice to something

an offering to something

...as a sort of a sacrifice to a terrible sort of a...

「Catherine Recalls the Mardi Gras Ball」を読み解く

What's really going on

The confession is the film's turn from mystery to memory. Catherine describes the night without softening anything: the man who took her home, the cruel sentence he gave her, and her own decision to return and wreck the party. The key line is a correction of her own story: 'I thought I'd gone back to pick up my coat. But I hadn't... I'd gone back to make a scene.' She admits she was not an innocent victim that night; she wanted a public collapse. And then Sebastian is named, and the doctor begins to steer her toward something darker. When she says she loved Sebastian 'the only way he'd accept,' and calls him a sacrifice, the film signals that the summer's real horror lies with the dead cousin, not the scandal.

Theme

MemoryCatherine's account of the ball is a memory she must reconstruct, correcting her own earlier story as she goes.
GuiltShe admits she chose to make a scene and attacked the man, so her suffering is mixed with responsibility.

このチャプターで学べること

  • One excuse can collapse in the same breath she makes it.
  • Catherine names her own manipulation instead of hiding it.
  • Pity here is a tool, and she says so out loud.
  • The confession ends where her cousin pulls her away.

発音のポイント

  • took me home — Link took me together and keep the final m soft.
  • pick up — The k links into up, so it sounds like one word.
  • comes into — The final s links into into, sounding like come-sinto.
  • feel sorry for — For reduces to /fər/ and the three words run together.
He liked me, so I loved him.

Catherine's simple, blunt statement about Sebastian: she returned his affection in the form he would allow, which hints at something complicated.

I hadn't gone back for that at all. I'd gone back to make a scene.

She corrects her own account: the coat was an excuse, and she returned to the ball deliberately to cause a scene.

I'm trying to make you feel sorry for her.

The doctor's blunt note about his own questioning: he is deliberately steering her toward pity, perhaps to reach the truth.

I thought I'd gone back to pick up my coat. But I hadn't.

The first version of her story, which she immediately takes apart. It shows how carefully she has rehearsed and re-read her own night.

このシーンについての質問

Why did Catherine go back to the ball?

She went back to make a scene. After the man told her to forget their encounter, she took a taxi to the Roosevelt Hotel ballroom and attacked him in public.

What did the man say to Catherine?

He said they had better forget what happened, because his wife was expecting a child. She calls it an awful thing to say.

What does "make a scene" mean?

It means to cause a noisy public disturbance, usually by losing control of your emotions. Catherine admits she went back to the ball deliberately to create one.

What does Catherine say about her love for Sebastian?

She says she loved him 'the only way he'd accept' and describes him as a sacrifice to 'a terrible sort of a God.' The wording keeps the relationship deliberately ambiguous.

What does the doctor ask about Sebastian?

He asks how Sebastian died and where. Catherine says they were at Cabeza de Lobo last summer, and that this is where Sebastian died.

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