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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir · 1947 — 第 1 / 18 章 · 2'31" · B1

Lucy Leaves Her In-Laws' House, Explained：come crawling back

Lucy has decided to move out, and her late husband's family treats it as a betrayal. They invoke Edwin — "barely cold in his grave" — and warn that she has no money and no right to take Anna or the maid. Lucy answers, "I'm not leaving him, I'm leaving you."

あらすじ

After nearly a year as a widow, Lucy tells her late husband's mother and sister that she is leaving their house. She plans to take her daughter Anna and the maid Martha to live by the sea, on the income from Edwin's gold shares. The family objects at every turn — Edwin's memory, her lack of money, Anna's future — but Lucy has already made up her mind.

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注目の表現

mind is made upcold in his gravetake responsibility formake a fool of

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このシーンの表現

mind is made up

the decision is final

Lucy ends the family's objections with one calm line that leaves no room to negotiate.

His mind is made up and nothing will change it.

このシーンの他の表現

  • cold in his grave

    barely dead yet

  • take responsibility for

    accept responsibility for

  • make a fool of

    humiliate oneself

  • interfere with

    meddle with

  • never heard of such a thing

    that's outrageous

このシーンのメモ一覧

53 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ

表現 · B1one's mind is made up

decided firmly

And now my mind is made up.
発音mind is

Link mind and is so they sound like one word.

And now my mind is made up.
発音don't make it

The t in don't often drops, and make it runs together.

Please don't make it more difficult.
表現 · B1something won't work

will not succeed

I know you've tried to be generous and kind, but it simply won't work, my living here.
文法 · B2my living here

postponed subject: The real subject, my living here, is moved to the end while it holds its place.

I know you've tried to be generous and kind, but it simply won't work, my living here.
表現 · C1barely cold in one's grave

only just dead

And poor Edwin barely cold in his grave.
表現 · B2have consideration for someone

thoughtfulness for someone

Still you might have some consideration for your husband's memory.
文法 · B1what Edwin's got to do with this

noun clause: The what-clause is the object of see, naming the connection being denied.

I don't see what Edwin's got to do with this.
発音leaving him

The h in him is often dropped, giving leavin-im.

I'm not leaving him, I'm leaving you.
表現 · B1except for something

apart from

but I'm not really a member of the family, except for marrying your son, and now he's gone.
文法 · B2except for marrying your son

except for phrase: Except for plus a gerund sets one exception apart from the general statement.

but I'm not really a member of the family, except for marrying your son, and now he's gone.
表現 · B1never one's own

never belonging to me

It's been Edwin's life and yours and Eva's, never my own.
スラング · B2sniveling

whining and crying — Belittling; never say it to someone who is genuinely grieving.

Stop sniveling, Mother.
表現 · B2make a fool of oneself

humiliate oneself

Eva shrugs off her mother's tears, saying Lucy is set on humiliating herself.

If she's determined to make a fool of herself, there's nothing we can do about it.
表現 · B2take responsibility for something

accept responsibility for

Eva presses Lucy to say she will answer for whatever happens to Anna.

You're willing to take responsibility for what might become of her?
表現 · B2interfere with someone

meddle with

Lucy catches Eva's hint and names it out loud instead of letting it slide.

You're insinuating that I interfere with Anna.
表現 · B1how someone manages

how you will cope

I'm sure I don't know how you'll manage, Lucy.
表現 · B1live cheaply

live on very little

Anna and I can live quite cheaply with Martha.
表現 · A2live by the sea

live near the sea

I've always wanted to live by the sea.
発音live by the

Blend live by the into one smooth run.

I've always wanted to live by the sea.
スラング · A2goody

yay, said childishly — Childish or ironic; adults rarely use it seriously.

Oh, goody.
表現 · B2come crawling back to someone

return humbly for help

but when you realize your mistake and try to come crawling back to us,
表現 · B1encouragement from someone

support from me

don't expect any encouragement from me.

「Lucy Leaves Her In-Laws' House」を読み解く

What's really going on

This is not a quarrel about money or manners; it is Lucy declaring that she owns herself. The relatives keep invoking Edwin as a claim on her — "Still you might have some consideration for your husband's memory" — and Eva attacks her competence as a mother, hinting she is unfit to raise Anna. Lucy refuses the framing. "I'm not leaving him, I'm leaving you," she says, separating grief from obedience. Her real argument is about identity: "I've never had a life of my own. It's been Edwin's life and yours and Eva's, never my own." The family's parting line, that she shouldn't come crawling back, is meant to frighten her into staying. It doesn't work, because she already answered the only question that mattered: "my mind is made up."

Theme

Family conflictLucy's in-laws treat her as property of their dead son, and she refuses the claim.
IdentityHer whole case is that she has never had a life of her own, and now she wants one.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A calm refusal can be harder to answer than a shout.
  • Every line here is politeness doing the work of a knife.
  • Money and memory are arguments, not facts.
  • Leaving is stated, then explained, never apologized for.

発音のポイント

  • mind is — Link mind and is so they sound like one word.
  • don't make it — The t in don't often drops, and make it runs together.
  • leaving him — The h in him is often dropped, giving leavin-im.
  • live by the — Blend live by the into one smooth run.
And now my mind is made up.

Lucy's opening line: the decision is final and she will not be talked out of it.

I'm not leaving him, I'm leaving you.

She refuses the family's guilt-trip: grieving Edwin and escaping his relatives are two different things.

I have my own life to live, and you have yours, and they simply won't mix.

Her reason for going: two separate lives can't be forced into one household.

It's been Edwin's life and yours and Eva's, never my own.

The heart of her complaint — she has spent the marriage living other people's lives, not her own.

I've always wanted to live by the sea.

A small, hopeful wish under all the arguing: her plan has a direction, not just an escape.

I've never had a life of my own.

The plainest version of her case, and the sentence the whole scene turns on.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Lucy want to leave her late husband's family?

Because she has never had a life of her own. She married into the household, Edwin died, and she refuses to spend the rest of her years as a dependent in his family's house.

Is Lucy being ungrateful to Edwin's mother?

The family frames it that way, but Lucy acknowledges their kindness and still says their lives won't mix. Grief for Edwin isn't the same as owing his relatives the rest of her life.

Why does Eva bring up Anna during the argument?

To make Lucy doubt herself. By questioning whether she can take responsibility for Anna, Eva reframes Lucy's independence as bad mothering — but Lucy answers simply that Anna is her daughter.

Why does Eva warn Lucy not to "come crawling back"?

It's a threat meant to keep her home. Eva wants Lucy to imagine failure and humiliation outside, so that the fear of returning with nothing will make her stay put.

What does "cold in his grave" mean?

Literally that Edwin is not long dead. It's an idiom of reproach — used to accuse someone of moving on too soon after a death.

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