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A View From The Bridge. Beatrice. Listen, Catherine. ( Catherine halts, turns to her sheepishly.) What are you going to do with yourself? Catherine.
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A View From The Bridge
Beatrice Listen, Catherine. ( Catherine halts, turns to her sheepishly.) What are you going to do with yourself? Catherine I don’t know. Beatrice Don’t tell me you don’t know; you’re not a baby any more, what are you going to do with yourself?
Catherine He won’t listen to me…
Beatrice I don’t understand this. He’s not your father, Catherine. I don’t understand what’s going on here.
Catherine (as one who herself is trying to rationalize a buried impulse.) What am I going to do, just kick him in the face with it?
Beatrice Look, honey, you wanna get married, or don’t you wanna get married? What are you worried about, Katie? Catherine (Quietly, trembling.) I don’t know, Bea. It just seems wrong if he’s against it so much. Beatrice (never losing her aroused alarm) Sit down, honey, I want to tell you something. Here, sit down. Was there ever any fella he liked for you? There wasn’t, was there? Catherine But he says Roldolpho’s just after his papers…
Catherine Yeah, but how am I going to do that? He thinks I am a baby… Beatrice Because you think you’re a baby. I told you fifty times already, you can’t act the way you act. You still walk around in front of him in your slip… Catherine Well, I forgot… Beatrice Well, you can’t do it. Or like you sit on the edge of the bathtub talkin’ to him when he’s shavin’ in his underware. Catherine When’d I do that? Beatrice I seen you in there this morning!
Catherine Oh… well, I wanted to tell him something and I…
Beatrice I know, honey. But if you act like a baby and he be treatin’ you like a baby. Like when he comes home sometimes you throw yourself at him like when you was twelve years old… Catherine Well, I like to see him and I’m happy so I… Beatrice Look, I’m not tellin’ you what to do, honey, but… Catherine No, you could tell me, Bea!... Gee, I’m all mixed up. See, I… he looks so sad now and it hurts me… Beatrice Well, look, Katie, if it’s goin’ to hurt you so much you’re gonna end up an old maid here.
Beatrice That he should let you go. But, you see, if only I tell him, he thinks I’m just bawlin’ him out, or maybe I’m jealous or somethin’, you know? Catherine (Astonished.) He said you were jealous? Beatrice No, I’m just sayin’ maybe that’s what he thinks.( she reaches over to Catherine’s hand, and with a strained smile …) You think I’m jealous of you, honey? Catherine No! It’s the first I thought of it. Beatrice (With a quiet sad laugh.) Well, you should have thought of it before…but I’m not. We’ll be all right. Just give him to understand; you don’t have to fight, you’re just… you’re a woman, that’s all, and you got a nice boy, and now the time came when you said good-bye. All right?
Catherine (Strangely moved at the prospect.) All right… If I can. Beatrice Honey…you gotta. (Catherine, sensing now an imperious demand, turns with some fear, with a discovery to Beatrice. She is at the edge of tears, as though a familiar world had shattered.) Catherine Okay.
(lights out)
