Joe and Sarah's Bitter Fight, Explained：get a rise out of

What's really going on

The argument is the clearest look the film gives at Joe's marriage, and it is built almost entirely out of people trying to wound each other. Sarah says she only wanted a reaction; Joe refuses to give a sincere one and turns every accusation into a joke. The one line that lands is hers: "I'm not the one who hates you, Joe. You're the one who hates you." That is the thesis of the character, and he answers it by living with himself twenty-four hours a day. The cut to the bar repeats the pattern in a different key, with Jimmy saying that all he does now is lose friends, drink and chase anything that moves. Two men, the same self-destruction.

Theme

このチャプターで学べること

• Irony here is a weapon, not a joke.
• She insults him to prove he is still alive.
• The bar scene turns self-pity into a confession.
• Asking about the autopsy says help comes too late.

発音のポイント

• all I do is — All I do is runs together into one blur.
• Put the — The t in Put the is often stopped, not released.
• What are you — In fast speech what are you can blur into wacha.