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I thought you were one woman with sense, but you're like all the rest of them.The Ghost and Mrs. Muir · 1947 — 第 15 / 18 章 · 2'57" · C1
Captain Gregg Says Goodbye to Lucy, Explained：promise you the moon
On the surface, a ghost explains why he must leave. Underneath, it's an act of love: Captain Gregg tells Lucy the whole haunting was a dream she invented, so she can rejoin the living without guilt. "You must make your own life amongst the living," he says, and means it as a gift.
あらすじ
Captain Gregg tells Lucy he is leaving. She has chosen life, he says, and should live it among the living; his presence can only confuse her and ruin her chances of happiness. To free her, he insists their years together—the talks, even the book—were a dream she imagined alone. After picturing the voyages they'll never take, he says goodbye.
注目の表現
promise you the moonon the chartwhatever the reckoningmake your own life
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このシーンの表現
promise you the moon
make empty grand promises
The captain warns that any man who promises Lucy the moon can win her and drain her dry.
He promised you the moon, then vanished.
このシーンの他の表現
- on the chart
fated, already marked out
- whatever the reckoning
no matter the cost
- make your own life
build a life of your own
- fair winds or foul
good times or bad
- die at waking
vanish the moment you wake
このシーンのメモ一覧
28 行のセリフに 22 件のメモ
sensible
I thought you were one woman with sense, but you're like all the rest of them.simile with like: Like introduces the comparison that lumps her in with all the others.
I thought you were one woman with sense, but you're like all the rest of them.make empty grand promises
The captain warns that any man who promises Lucy the moon can win her and drain her dry.
Fall for any man who'll promise you the moon and end by taking everything you have to give.all you can give
Fall for any man who'll promise you the moon and end by taking everything you have to give.relative clause: The relative clause who'll promise you the moon narrows any man to the ones who make big promises.
Fall for any man who'll promise you the moon and end by taking everything you have to give.fall in love with — Casual for falling in love; too loose for formal talk.
Fall for any man who'll promise you the moon and end by taking everything you have to give.go to the trouble
Oh, don't trouble yourself, my dear.fated, already marked out
Resigned, the captain says he should have known it was on the chart, as if fate had mapped their meeting.
I should have known it was on the chart.the one possible choice
You've made your choice, the only choice you could make.just as it ought to be
You've chosen life, and that's as it should be, whatever the reckoning.no matter the cost
The captain backs Lucy's choice of life and adds whatever the reckoning, accepting any price.
You've chosen life, and that's as it should be, whatever the reckoning.Link as it should be, with almost no break after that's as.
You've chosen life, and that's as it should be, whatever the reckoning.can't assist someone
I can't help you now.among the living
You must make your own life amongst the living.Run amongst the living together, with the very light.
You must make your own life amongst the living.good times or bad
The captain uses sailing to say that fair weather or foul, she must steer home alone.
And whether you'll meet fair winds or foul,whether clause: The whether clause lays out both possibilities before the main advice follows.
And whether you'll meet fair winds or foul,make your own way
find your own way to harbor in the end.Link no one else so it flows as one phrase.
you and no one else.recall it as
And in the morning and the years after, you'll only remember it as a dream,the polar summer sun
How you'd have loved the North Cape and the fjords and the midnight sun,「Captain Gregg Says Goodbye to Lucy」を読み解く
What's really going on
The hard part of this scene is that Gregg says something false in order to do something true. Lucy's book really was written with him; the house really is haunted. But telling her that would chain her to a dead man's love and to a house of dreams, so he recasts their whole story as something she made up: 'you wrote the book, you and no one else.' It's a deliberate lie in service of her future. He frames her choice plainly—'You've chosen life, and that's as it should be, whatever the reckoning'—and then does the leaving himself, so she won't have to. The imagined voyage to the North Cape and the Falklands is his farewell gift: a glimpse of the life he can't give her.
Theme
RomanceGregg's goodbye is his last act of love: he gives Lucy up so she can have a real life.
Death & griefA ghost lets go of the woman he loves; the scene is loss spoken as tenderness, ending in a final farewell.
このチャプターで学べること
- He leaves by telling her to live, not by asking her to stay.
- Every goodbye is dressed up in a ship or a chart.
- Calling it a dream is his way of ending it cleanly.
- The things they never saw are named like lost ports.
発音のポイント
- as it should be — Link as it should be, with almost no break after that's as.
- amongst the living — Run amongst the living together, with the very light.
- no one else — Link no one else so it flows as one phrase.
Fall for any man who'll promise you the moon and end by taking everything you have to give.Gregg's bitter warning from earlier in his speech: he thinks Lucy fell for Miles' empty promises. The image of a promised moon sets up the theme of dreams that can't be kept.
You've chosen life, and that's as it should be, whatever the reckoning.Gregg accepts her choice without blame: living is what she should choose, no matter what it costs either of them. It's the logic behind his decision to leave.
You must make your own life amongst the living.The scene's central instruction: Lucy belongs with the living, not with a ghost. Gregg says it as a command because he believes she needs permission to go on.
find your own way to harbor in the end.A sailing image for the end of life: whatever winds she meets, Lucy must steer herself home. It closes his blessing and foreshadows her long life after him.
You've been dreaming, dreaming of a sea captain that haunted this house,The kind lie begins: Gregg reframes their whole relationship as Lucy's dream. He does it gently, almost as a caress.
and it'll die, as all dreams must die at waking.His promise that the memory will fade: like every dream, it can't survive daylight. It's meant to reassure Lucy that the pain will pass.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Gregg tell Lucy their time together was a dream?
He believes a living woman can't build a real life while clinging to a ghost. By calling it a dream, he frees her to move on—even though every word of the haunting was true.
Is the ghost relationship really just Lucy's imagination?
No—the audience has seen Gregg all along, and Lucy wrote the book with him. His 'it was a dream' speech is a kindness, not the truth of the film.
Why does Gregg leave instead of staying with Lucy?
He sees that his presence keeps her suspended between two worlds. Leaving is how he stops being an obstacle, and he frames it himself: 'You must make your own life amongst the living.'
What does the North Cape speech mean?
It's Gregg's goodbye gift: he describes the voyages they'll never take—fjords, the midnight sun, Barbados, the Falklands—so Lucy can imagine a life he can't give her.
Does Lucy ever see Gregg again?
At the very end of the film she does: after her long life, Gregg returns to lead her away, fulfilling the promise this scene seems to break. So his goodbye is not quite final.
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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
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第 17 章take my breath awayAnna Brings Home a Fiance
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