request to see someone
- Did you want to see me? - I've been asking for you all day.The Uninvited · 1944 — 第 24 / 28 章 · 2'28" · B2
Stella Trapped at the Retreat, Explained：plaster saint
Stella is kept locked in the Mary Meredith Retreat and treated as a patient she does not believe she is. "Why do you hate me, Miss Holloway?" she asks, and the question is turned back on her as proof of persecution. Later Pamela decides that Miss Holloway edits the past to make Mary Meredith a plaster saint.
あらすじ
Stella is held at the Mary Meredith Retreat, where her door is kept locked and her questions are read as symptoms. She asks Miss Holloway why she is hated and is told she feels persecuted, and she begs not to be sent back if she ever loses her mind. Afterwards Pamela argues that Miss Holloway is hiding the past to make Mary Meredith look perfect.
注目の表現
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このシーンの表現
plaster saint
a hypocritically virtuous person
Rick mocks Holloway's need to make Mary perfect with the image of a plaster saint.
He is no plaster saint; he has made real mistakes.
このシーンの他の表現
- as though
as if
- kept locked
kept shut with a lock
- stronger than
more powerful than
- in time
eventually, with patience
- lose one's mind
go crazy
このシーンのメモ一覧
42 行のセリフに 27 件のメモ
as if
Stella complains that people treat her as mad, using as though to deny it.
I'm being treated as though I were insane.as though with subjunctive: As though with were marks a comparison that is not literally true.
I'm being treated as though I were insane.Link as though and I; keep were light.
I'm being treated as though I were insane.a matter of
- I've told them a thousand times... - It isn't a question of a word.kept shut with a lock
Stella says her door is kept locked, a detail that makes the retreat feel like a cell.
My door's kept locked, and there's a queer look in their eyes.passive voice: The passive keeps the focus on the locked door, not on who locks it.
My door's kept locked, and there's a queer look in their eyes.run in the direction of
what did you feel as you ran toward it?more powerful than
Holloway suggests a will stronger than Stella's, but Stella only recalls the loud, beautiful sea.
- a will stronger than yours? - The sea sounded loud and beautiful.that way
- I just went in that direction. - In fact, you don't quite know.how a place really is
Does Grandfather know what this place is like?through the whole night
I hear laughing all night! And that other woman that...completely fine
"Better"? But I'm perfectly all right!I would not go that far
I wouldn't say that, Stella dear.feel hatred toward me
Why do you hate me, Miss Holloway?Stress hate and let me fall away.
Why do you hate me, Miss Holloway?should in a conditional: Should frames a remote future possibility in a gentle, formal way.
Rick, if I should ever happen to lose my mind...come slightly loose
I don't think you'll lose it. It might rattle to one side.a mind coming loose — A playful image of a mind working loose.
I don't think you'll lose it. It might rattle to one side.out of date in style
Plain, old-fashioned lunatic asylum, not that creepy horror.an old term for a mental hospital — Dated and offensive today; say psychiatric hospital.
Plain, old-fashioned lunatic asylum, not that creepy horror.a natural human response
Why try to hide it? It was a normal human reaction.in fact
Made me like Mary better, as a matter of fact.make her become
Why should Miss Holloway want to turn her into a plaster saint?The h in herself often drops, so it sounds like one-erself.
Maybe she likes plaster saints. She's one herself.a hypocritically virtuous person — Mocking; describes someone pretending to be saintly.
Maybe she likes plaster saints. She's one herself.a fit young man
I assure you that when that healthy young man laughs, he isn't being delirious.「Stella Trapped at the Retreat」を読み解く
What's really going on
The retreat works by refusing to argue. Stella says plainly, "I'm being treated as though I were insane," and instead of denying it, Miss Holloway turns the complaint into evidence — the more Stella protests, the more she confirms the diagnosis. The locked door and the queer looks are never explained, and Stella is left to wonder whether she is losing her mind. What she does not yet know is that the same institution keeps the story of Mary Meredith under lock. Pamela notices that Miss Holloway told them more than she meant to, and her verdict on the saint-making is deliberately unsentimental: "Maybe she likes plaster saints. She's one herself." The scene works because no one is crazy and no one is honest; the quiet room is the most frightening place in the film.
Theme
LonelinessStella is locked in a retreat where nobody answers her questions, and her isolation is treated as a symptom.
DeceptionPamela suspects Miss Holloway of trimming the past to make Mary a saint, and the scene shows how a story is edited to protect an image.
このチャプターで学べること
- Stella's calm question is more cutting than any outburst.
- Plaster saint names a person who performs virtue.
- In time soothes without promising anything concrete.
- As though quietly denies the charge while voicing it.
発音のポイント
- as though I — Link as though and I; keep were light.
- hate me — Stress hate and let me fall away.
- one herself — The h in herself often drops, so it sounds like one-erself.
I'm being treated as though I were insane.Stella's charge against the retreat: the locked door and the strange looks make her feel she is already being handled as a madwoman.
Why do you hate me, Miss Holloway?The direct question that turns Holloway's polite distance into something personal, and that Holloway answers by calling it persecution.
Maybe she likes plaster saints. She's one herself.Pamela's verdict on Holloway: she edits the past to make Mary flawless, and the taste for saints says more about Holloway than Mary.
Your grandfather's sorry that you have to be here...The caretaker's soft, rehearsed reassurance, which avoids the real question of why Stella is kept at the retreat at all.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Stella think she is being treated as insane?
Her door is kept locked, the staff look at her strangely, and Miss Holloway reads her questions as proof of persecution. Nobody will tell her plainly why she is kept there.
Why does Miss Holloway say Stella feels persecuted?
Because Stella keeps asking why she is hated and why she cannot see her grandfather. Miss Holloway uses those questions as evidence rather than answering them.
What did Miss Holloway let slip about the past?
She admitted that it was Mary Meredith who told Carmel to go, a detail she had not meant to share. Pamela thinks she hid it to keep Mary looking perfect.
Why does Rick say it made him like Mary better?
Because the admission makes Mary human. He was tired of her flawless reputation, and the small flaw is more believable than the plaster saint version.
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第 17 章tear someone apartRoderick Asks Stella to Leave
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第 26 章pile it onThe Plan to Rescue Stella
第 27 章beating about the bushHolloway Sends Stella Home
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