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The Apartment · 1960 — 第 4 / 15 章 · 2'58" · B2

Fran Turns Sheldrake Down at the Booth, Explained：kid yourself

Sheldrake has brought Fran back to the same restaurant booth, same song, and asks her to take him back. She answers with a litany of how these affairs end: "Come September, the picnic's over. Goodbye." He keeps insisting he never said goodbye; she keeps ordering drinks and refusing to look away from the truth.

あらすじ

At a Chinese restaurant, Fran meets Sheldrake in the same booth where they once sat. He admits he missed her and says he's still crazy about her; she tells him the affair is over and recites the pattern she now sees clearly. When he says he has something to tell her, she refuses to go anywhere else and orders another round instead.

BreakupsGetting back togetherSaying noConfrontingCoupleB2mediumamericanClean
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注目の表現

see us togetherlike it betterwho's countinghappen all the time

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このシーンの表現

kid yourself

fool yourself

Fran describes how she fooled herself into treating the affair as a normal romance.

Don't kid yourself; it won't work.

このシーンの他の表現

  • see us together

    spot us as a couple

  • like it better

    prefer one way

  • who's counting

    as if nobody is keeping track

  • happen all the time

    it is very common

  • keep calling

    call repeatedly

このシーンのメモ一覧

42 行のセリフに 27 件のメモ

表現 · B1see someone together

spot us as a couple

Fran teases Sheldrake that he still fears being seen with her in public.

Still afraid someone might see us together?
文法 · B1afraid someone might see us

ellipsis: The opening Are you is dropped, a common shortcut in speech.

Still afraid someone might see us together?
表現 · B1be on the way

coming soon

- Can I have a frozen daiquiri? - It's on the way.
表現 · B1go ahead and do something

went and did it

- I see you went ahead and cut your hair. - That's right.
表現 · B1how long has it been

how much time has passed

How long has it been, Fran? A month?
表現 · B1who's counting

as if nobody is keeping track

Asked how long it has been, Fran says six weeks, then claims nobody is counting.

Six weeks. But who's counting?
発音But who's counting

The stress on counting is what makes the line ironic.

Six weeks. But who's counting?
スラング · B2It's been hell

it has been awful — Casual exaggeration of hard times.

- It's been hell. - Same sauce. Sweet-and-sour.
表現 · B1what it's like

how it feels

You don't know what it's like, next to you in that elevator.
文法 · B2what it's like, next to you

parenthetical: The phrase after the comma adds the situation that makes it so hard.

You don't know what it's like, next to you in that elevator.
発音what it's like

What it's can blur into a single sound in fast speech.

You don't know what it's like, next to you in that elevator.
表現 · B1be crazy about someone

very much in love with

I'm still crazy about you, Fran.
表現 · B1get over something

move on

Let's not start on that again, Jeff. Please? I'm just beginning to get over it.
表現 · A2all the time

constantly

But that was it. Happens all the time.
表現 · B2have a fling with someone

have a brief affair

Wife and kids go away to the country and the boss has a fling with his secretary...
スラング · B2fling

a brief affair — A short affair; slightly dismissive.

Wife and kids go away to the country and the boss has a fling with his secretary...
表現 · B2the picnic is over

the fun is finished

Come September, the picnic's over. Goodbye.
スラング · B2the picnic's over

the fun is over — Figurative: the good times are finished.

Come September, the picnic's over. Goodbye.
表現 · B1like they used to

as in the old days

They don't make these shrimp like they used to.
表現 · A2say goodbye

part ways

I never said goodbye, Fran.
表現 · B1go with someone

date someone

For a while there, you try kidding yourself that you're going with an unmarried man.
文法 · B2kidding yourself that you're going with

noun clause: The that-clause spells out what she is fooling herself about.

For a while there, you try kidding yourself that you're going with an unmarried man.
表現 · B1keep calling

call repeatedly

Tired of being chased, Fran asks Sheldrake what he actually wants from her.

Why do you keep calling me, Jeff? What do you want from me?
表現 · B1be full up

full

Sorry, Mr. Sheldrake. I'm full up. You'll have to take the next elevator.
発音have to

Have to is usually pronounced haf-ta.

Sorry, Mr. Sheldrake. I'm full up. You'll have to take the next elevator.
表現 · A2go someplace else

go somewhere else

- Go ahead. Tell me. - Not here. Can't we go someplace else?
表現 · B1be there anyway

attend regardless

- Important? - Not very, but I'm gonna be there anyway.

「Fran Turns Sheldrake Down at the Booth」を読み解く

What's really going on

Sheldrake wants to relive the summer affair; Fran has already named it. "Wife and kids go away to the country and the boss has a fling with his secretary," she says, and finishes it: "Come September, the picnic's over." She isn't describing him only — she's also describing what she let herself believe. "For a while there, you try kidding yourself that you're going with an unmarried man." Her refusal is not coldness; it's a woman protecting a recovery she only just began, the same recovery she names when she begs, "I'm just beginning to get over it." When Sheldrake tries the soft power move — "I have something to tell you" — she won't leave the booth, and she turns her own job into the verdict: "Sorry, Mr. Sheldrake. I'm full up."

Theme

HeartbreakFran recites how the affair was doomed precisely because she has only begun to heal.
PowerSheldrake, her boss, uses affection as leverage; she answers with the elevator line.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Fran lists the small humiliations instead of shouting.
  • Sheldrake's wish to have her back ignores everything she just said.
  • The same booth and same song make the ending sharper.
  • Her elevator line turns a polite phrase into a refusal.

発音のポイント

  • But who's counting — The stress on counting is what makes the line ironic.
  • what it's like — What it's can blur into a single sound in fast speech.
  • have to — Have to is usually pronounced haf-ta.
Six weeks. But who's counting?

Fran corrects his guess of a month with the exact figure, then pretends not to have counted. The joke admits how much the time mattered to her.

You don't know what it's like, next to you in that elevator.

Sheldrake says riding the elevator with her every day, unable to touch her, is its own punishment. It's the closest he comes to admitting the cost of their secrecy.

I'm still crazy about you, Fran.

Sheldrake's attempt to restart the affair. He says it plainly, but after her speech it sounds less like love than a bid to keep what he had.

They don't make these shrimp like they used to.

Sheldrake changes the subject to the food right after being told the affair is over. The mundane complaint is his way of dodging the verdict she just delivered.

このシーンについての質問

Why won't Fran go somewhere else with Sheldrake?

He says he has something important to tell her and asks to leave the booth, but she keeps insisting they stay and order more drinks. Staying in public keeps the meeting from sliding back into the affair she's trying to end.

Is Sheldrake genuinely in love with Fran?

The film leaves it ambiguous. He says "I'm still crazy about you" and "I never said goodbye," but he also spent six weeks away and only returns when it costs him nothing. Fran reads that pattern more clearly than he does.

What does Fran mean by "the picnic's over"?

It's her summary of the affair's season: the summer fling ends when fall comes, the husband goes back to his family, and the woman is left alone with instant coffee and regret. She's telling Sheldrake she won't be that woman again.

Why does Fran compare herself to an elevator?

She works as the elevator operator, and when Sheldrake pressures her, she answers in character: "Sorry, Mr. Sheldrake. I'm full up. You'll have to take the next elevator." The line is a polite refusal in the language of her job.

Why does Sheldrake talk about the shrimp?

It's a nervous deflection. Right after Fran tells him these affairs always end badly, he complains that "they don't make these shrimp like they used to" — the small talk of a man avoiding the conversation he started.

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