![]() ![]() She’d win some prize at school? You’d be all weirded-out. Wanted her gone.įar, far away, ‘cuz you hated she always did better than you. You go round all high and mighty, but when Lexie shipped out, I remember you prayin’ to all the saints in heaven that she stay there a long time. In this scene, Ali confronts Evelyn about their shared past. Their middle sister Lexie has just returned from a five-year tour of duty in a recent war. In a small town in North Carolina, 18-year-old Ali lives with her older sister Evelyn in a house that has seen better days. Grosberg, and that’s OK by me -Ī monologue from the play by Caridad Svich I’m going to put school on hold and work to support him while he’s finishing his philosophy degree.Īnd I know, there aren’t a lot of rich philosophers, Mrs. But my needs and desires aren’t that fancy. If Arthur likes to buy them, if he’s proud, as you say, fine. I don’t need big rings and cashmere sweaters. He came over from the Old Country when he was nine, by himself Mrs. And that he had enormous respect for the right things for education, for culture. ![]() I can tell you, that, even though he maybe spent too much, he did it out of love. And I can’t make him more responsible with his money when he was alive. I know rich is better than poor.īut I’m just eighteen, Mrs. I know my family seems pretty lousy on paper, and I don’t have the know-how to prove otherwise. Because I’m not going anywhere, and life’ll be a lot easier if we can be friends. And it’s hard to just walk away from that.Įven if it seems sensible!. All our memories of my dad are tied up in it. We’ve thought of selling the house, many times. I am sorry that my father didn’t leave us with more. I am sorry I am not as rich as you want me to be. ![]() Rochelle is speaking to her future mother-in-law, who doesn’t think Rochelle is good enough for her son, Arthur.įor Godsakes, the buns cost ten cents each, Mrs. What’s he going to need a diploma for anyway? He’s not going to use it.Ī monologue from the play by Daniel Goldfarb I still … I don’t want to have anything to do with him and I think they should have just kicked him out. I noticed that after he came back to school … and he couldn’t play anymore …he never wore his jacket again.Īnd …it’s like, since then, I don’t know. He always wore it, like he was just a little more proud of it than anybody else. Tony Miller still wears his even though he quit playing football, but Marc always wore his jacket. I thought it was kind of weird, but … I mean, we all wear our team jackets, you know? It’s kinda like two Marcs: Marc before he got hurt and Marc after he got hurt.īefore he got hurt, he was okay, and you’d get close enough and you’d deal with it ‘cause we were all on teams, and he was kind of there, but after he got hurt… But maybe there is a gun and he’d have done it, too. Maybe there wasn’t a gun and they were just gonna take that kid’s money. What’s next, Mom? What does he have to do to make you see that he’s no good? You know he still hangs out with those idiots… with Jim and Chris. Marc, who is mentioned in the monologue, was once a jock and has changed drastically after a severe motorcycle accident. PRAYING FOR RAINĪ monologue from the play by Robert Lewis Vaughan The Laramie Project 24 Of The Best Dramatic Monologues For Teenage Females From Published Plays 1. Everything Will Be Different: A Brief History Of Helen Of Troy 24 Of The Best Dramatic Monologues For Teenage Females From Published Plays. ![]()
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