What did you often blurs into whaddaya in fast speech.
What did you say?The Ghost and Mrs. Muir · 1947 — 第 18 / 18 章 · 2'49" · B2
Anna and Lucy Talk About the Captain, Explained：hopelessly in love
On the surface, a grown daughter and her mother compare childhood memories of a friendly ghost. Underneath, it's a reckoning: Anna admits she was in love with Captain Gregg, and Lucy finally concedes she loved him too. "We made him up, you and I," Lucy insists—half denial, half shared secret.
あらすじ
Years later, Anna visits Gull Cottage and talks with Lucy about her childhood. She says she used to have wonderful talks with Captain Gregg and admits she was hopelessly in love with him. Lucy calls it all a dream the two of them made up. Anna then brings news of Miles: bald, fat, drinking, and abandoned by his wife.
注目の表現
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このシーンの表現
hopelessly in love
in love beyond reason
Lucy admits to her daughter that she loved the captain beyond all reason as a girl.
He was hopelessly in love with his best friend's sister.
このシーンの他の表現
- here and there
scattered about
- nothing of the sort
nothing like that happened
- had enough
could take no more
- made up
invented
このシーンのメモ一覧
51 行のセリフに 24 件のメモ
know someone well
I knew the captain very well.did often in the past
When I was a little girl, the first year we lived here, we used to have the most wonderful talks.Used to reduces to something like yoos-ta.
When I was a little girl, the first year we lived here, we used to have the most wonderful talks.came no longer
it was a very real while it lasted, and he stopped coming suddenly.while-clause: While it lasted marks the period during which something continued.
it was a very real while it lasted, and he stopped coming suddenly.outgrowing it
I suppose I was growing too old and sophisticated for him, but I grieved and grieved.mourned over and over — An emotional repetition; literary rather than everyday.
I suppose I was growing too old and sophisticated for him, but I grieved and grieved.In love with runs together, the th of with almost dropped.
I was hopelessly in love with him.an exclamation of shock — Dated exclamation; surprise at something startling.
Heavens. You look as if you've seen a...not in a long time
No, not for years.noun-phrase subject: Things like that works as one subject meaning that sort of event.
No, darling. Things like that can't happen.shared by the two of us
The same dream for both of us?easily influenced
Little girls are very impressionable.odds and ends
Well, I can't remember them very well, just bits and pieces,began to love
I think you fell in love with him, too.would not hold it against you
I wouldn't blame you if you had.bald and overweight
He was bald and fat. He drank too much, and then he cried.left with the children
It seems his wife finally had enough and took the children away.the remainder of
Once I thought I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him.emphatic did: Did plus the base verb adds emphasis, stressing that it really happened.
Perhaps he did exist, the captain.wouldn't that be lovely
Wouldn't it be wonderful if he had?was never real
No, darling. He never existed.truly I have not — Repeated for emphasis when insisting on a denial.
I just wasn't intended to have that kind of happiness, and I haven't missed it, really I haven't.「Anna and Lucy Talk About the Captain」を読み解く
What's really going on
This is the scene that closes the film's central question: was the ghost real? Anna and Lucy both remember Gregg vividly, which briefly seems to settle it. But Lucy holds the line—'We made him up, you and I'—and calls their shared experience a dream. The detail that seals the ambiguity is the book: Lucy says she dreamed most of Blood and Swash, and 'I never could have thought of it' on her own. Anna takes the kinder view, wishing it had been real so her mother would have something happy to remember. Lucy refuses even that comfort: 'I just wasn't intended to have that kind of happiness.' The scene is really about two women agreeing on a story that lets them live.
Theme
MemoryAnna and Lucy piece together a past they remember differently, and decide which version to keep.
DreamsThe ghost is redefined as a dream—beautiful, shared, and unreal—which Lucy can accept and Anna cannot quite.
このチャプターで学べること
- The captain may be a story two women invented together.
- Lucy's calm denial says more about her feelings than any confession.
- Used to marks a habit that has ended, unlike would for repeated past action.
- The memory of a quarrel over another man still stings.
- The scene turns a ghost story into a story about loneliness.
発音のポイント
- What did you — What did you often blurs into whaddaya in fast speech.
- used to — Used to reduces to something like yoos-ta.
- in love with — In love with runs together, the th of with almost dropped.
When I was a little girl, the first year we lived here, we used to have the most wonderful talks.Anna's happy memory: as a child she believed she talked with Captain Gregg. It's the first hint that the ghost was real to someone besides Lucy.
I was hopelessly in love with him.Anna states it flatly, with no embarrassment—she loved a ghost as a girl. It forces Lucy to face her own buried feelings.
Once I thought I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him.Lucy finally admits she nearly married Miles. Coming after his sad fate is revealed, it reframes her choice as a lucky escape she never fully mourned.
We made him up, you and I.Lucy's verdict on the ghost, and the film's most ambiguous line: she calls their shared Captain Gregg a joint invention. It can be read as denial, kindness, or the truth.
I just wasn't intended to have that kind of happiness, and I haven't missed it, really I haven't.Lucy's quiet self-portrait at the end: she accepts she was never meant for romantic happiness and insists she feels no loss—a line that's either peace or hard-won denial.
このシーンについての質問
Was Captain Gregg real, or only a dream?
The film keeps it open. Lucy and Anna both remember him, which points to real; but Lucy insists they invented him, and the whole story is framed as a dream remembered.
Why does Anna believe she met the ghost too?
She says she talked with Captain Gregg as a little girl, and Lucy suggests her mother's stories planted the idea: 'Perhaps I set you off by telling you about my dreams.'
What happened to Miles Fairley?
Anna saw him years later: bald, fat, drinking too much, and crying. His wife finally left and took the children—confirming Lucy was right not to marry him.
Does Lucy regret not marrying Miles?
She admits she once wanted to spend her life with him, but says she wasn't meant for that kind of happiness and hasn't missed it. Whether that's contentment or denial is left open.
Why does Lucy call the captain 'made up' instead of admitting the truth?
Telling Anna the ghost was real would reopen a love Lucy has spent years putting behind her. Calling it a shared dream protects them both and lets the past stay closed.
幽霊と未亡人 · 全 18 章
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第 1 章come crawling backLucy Leaves Her In-Laws' House
第 2 章be the judge ofLucy Insists on Gull Cottage
第 3 章obstinateLucy Rents the Haunted House
第 4 章spunkLucy Meets Captain Gregg's Ghost
第 5 章make a bargainGregg Strikes a Bargain with Lucy
第 6 章as it isLucy Tells the Captain About Edwin
第 7 章bats in the belfryIn-Laws Come to Take Lucy Home
第 8 章throw yourself atCaptain Gregg Dictates His Memoirs
第 9 章unvarnishedLucy Writes Captain Gregg's Memoir
第 10 章wouldn't dream ofGregg Dictates His Last Chapter
第 11 章cooped upCaptain Gregg Tells Lucy to Move On
第 12 章unvarnishedLucy Barges In on a Publisher
第 13 章a weakness forLucy Meets Miles in a Cab
第 14 章today of all daysCaptain Gregg Gets Jealous
第 15 章promise you the moonCaptain Gregg Says Goodbye to Lucy
第 16 章what possessed meMrs. Muir's Book Becomes a Success
第 17 章take my breath awayAnna Brings Home a Fiance
再生中 · 第 18 章hopelessly in loveAnna and Lucy Talk About the Captainこの作品の 18 章はここまでです