make an effort to recall
Now, Dad, try and remember, you haven't seen Mom in a year.Whatever Works · 2009 — 第 15 / 16 章 · 5'01" · C1
John Shows Up at Marietta's Opening, Explained：look what the cat dragged in
At her art opening, Marietta's husband John reappears and asks her to come home, but she has become someone else: "I'm a different woman, John." She tells him she now lives with two men, while Melodie quietly tells Boris that she has fallen in love with someone else.
あらすじ
Marietta's gallery opening is interrupted when her husband, John, walks in and asks her to start over. She refuses, telling him he never understood her and that she is now a different woman living with two men. Meanwhile, Melodie finally tells Boris that she has fallen in love with someone else.
注目の表現
look what the cat dragged inabscondbeyond the backyardwhat does it all mean
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このシーンの表現
look what the cat dragged in
well, look who showed up
When John turns up uninvited at her opening, Marietta greets him with a teasing idiom.
Look what the cat dragged in, it's you!
このシーンの他の表現
- abscond
run off secretly
- beyond the backyard
past one's own small world
- what does it all mean
what is the point of it all
- be patient with someone
tolerate someone calmly
- count on someone
depend on someone
このシーンのメモ一覧
87 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ
more than one can handle
I had more people than I knew what to do with.You links into that, which weakens to a soft thət.
Well, darling, it's you that absconded.a slur for a loose woman — A heavy slur; never use it.
Yes, yes, with the promiscuous whore - who called herself my best friend. - Darling, I'll be...return to claim someone
It's over, Marietta. Mandy and I were a terrible mistake. I've come back for you.busy doing something
Well, honey, I'm in the middle of my opening.learn about someone
You never took a little minute to find out about me.so busy one neglects other things
And you were always too busy putting her in pageants and coaching her speeches and teaching her baton twirling!too busy doing: Too busy takes an -ing verb, and three of them stack up into an accusation.
And you were always too busy putting her in pageants and coaching her speeches and teaching her baton twirling!impose something on someone
Yes, yes, that's true. I was sublimating my own creative needs and forcing them on our daughter.nearer to someone
Her pygmy mentality is much closer to you now.keep out of it
Would you mind your own business?begin again
I want us all back home to start over.parenthetical: Deep down is a parenthetical that holds the sentence before the real verdict.
Your clothes are different, your speech is a little more affected, but deep down, I know you're thedamned, as a curse — A mild curse; not for polite company.
I knew we should never trust the goddamn French.nothing at all — Casual slang for nothing; too loose for writing.
What the hell does it all mean now? Zilch.instead of
Job's wife was my favorite character in the Bible, because she chose death rather than obsequious acceptance, like that masochist she married.an established routine
I know. I know. I know we have a standard routine.prevent someone from doing it
And, you know, you see it as routine, but for me the consistency helps keep me from becoming unnerved.causative phrase: Help takes a bare verb, and keep someone from doing marks what is prevented.
And, you know, you see it as routine, but for me the consistency helps keep me from becoming unnerved.come to love someone
Boris, I met someone else. I've fallen in love.Want us to blurs into one fast unit.
And you want us to live in a threesome, like your mother?Been links into very, and have been shrinks to I've bin.
Yes, it's true. I have been very patient with your phenomenal ignorance.「John Shows Up at Marietta's Opening」を読み解く
What's really going on
The chapter is full of returns that do not work. John comes back expecting the woman he left, and Marietta's answer is the plainest line in the film: "I'm a different woman, John." She has built a new life out of the very things he ignored, and she is not interested in being forgiven. The scene's comedy comes from everyone talking past each other, including Boris, who turns the reunion into a lecture about ancient Egyptians. Then the other return lands: Melodie tells Boris she has fallen in love with someone else, and his reaction is barely a reaction at all. The two endings are set side by side, and neither of them goes the way the person asking wanted.
Theme
IdentityMarietta has remade herself and refuses to be returned to the role John remembers her in.
Family conflictA husband asks for his family back at the worst possible moment, and gets a flat refusal instead.
このチャプターで学べること
- A polite idiom can carry an old grudge.
- One backyard image shrinks a man's whole life.
- Grand history ends in a shrug and one slang word.
- Affection survives even in a cruel farewell.
発音のポイント
- you that — You links into that, which weakens to a soft thət.
- want us to — Want us to blurs into one fast unit.
- been very — Been links into very, and have been shrinks to I've bin.
John Celestine! Look what the cat dragged in.Marietta's mocking greeting, turning a husband's return into a joke at his expense.
I'm a different woman, John.Her flat answer to his plea, the line that closes the door on the old marriage.
Your vision never extended beyond the backyard.Her summary of the marriage: he never looked beyond his own small world.
What the hell does it all mean now? Zilch.Boris's verdict on history and meaning, delivered as commentary while others argue.
Yes, it's true. I have been very patient with your phenomenal ignorance.Boris's backhanded compliment to Melodie, praise shaped like an insult.
このシーンについての質問
Why does John come to the gallery?
He wants Marietta back. He says his relationship with Mandy was a terrible mistake and asks the family to return home and start over.
How does Marietta answer John?
She refuses him and tells him he never understood her or looked beyond his own world. She says she is a different woman now and lives with two men.
What does Melodie tell Boris?
She says she has met someone else and fallen in love, though she still has deep feelings for Boris. It comes out while he is talking about his evening routine.
How does Boris take the news?
He is barely listening at first, absorbed in his routine and his lectures. When he does register it, he mostly turns it back on her as another example of her ignorance.
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第 1 章whatever worksBoris Breaks the Fourth Wall
第 2 章eke out a livingBoris Panics and Jumps Out the Window
第 3 章get on my feetBoris Takes Melodie In
第 4 章spare me the detailsBoris's Runaway Tells Her Past
第 5 章out of the questionBoris Rejects Melodie's Crush
第 6 章bark is worse than your biteBoris Refuses to Marry Melodie
第 7 章play one's cards rightMelodie Meets Perry
第 8 章What possessed me?Boris on a Year of Marriage
第 9 章plain as the nose on your faceMelodie's Mother Shows Up
第 10 章the long and short of itMarietta Argues and Plays Matchmaker
第 11 章down the toiletLeo Discovers Marietta's Photos
第 12 章out of spiteRandy Pursues Melodie
第 13 章toothpaste back in the tubeRandy Takes Melodie to His Boat
第 14 章of all peopleMelodie's Father Shows Up
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