All My Sons memorization

*start*

I’ve been intending to ask you a small favor, Ann… it’s something very important to me.

certainly, if i can do it

you can. when you take up housekeeping, try to find a place away from here.

are you fooling?

i’m very serious. My husband is unhappy with Chris around.

how is that?

jim’s a successful doctor. But he’s got an idea he’d like to do medical research. Discover things. You see?

well, isn’t that good?

research pays twenty-five dollars a week minus laundering the hair shirt. You’ve got to give up your life to go into it.

Hoe does Chris?

Chris makes people want to be better than it’s possible to be. He does that to people.

is that bad?

my husband has a family, dear, Every time he has a session with Chris he feel s as though he’s compromising by not giving up everything for research. As though Chris or anybody else isn’t compromising. It happens with Jim every couple of years. He meets a man and makes a statue out of him.

maybe he’s right. I don’t mean that Chris is a statue, but…

now darling, you know he’s not right

i don’t agree with you. Chris…

Let’s face it dear, Chris is working with his father isn’t he? He’s taking money out of that business every week in the year.

what of it?

you ask me what of it?

I certainly do ask you. (she seems about to burst out.) you oughtn’t cast asperisons like that, i’m surprised at you.

you’re surprised at me!

he’d never take five cents out of that plant if there was anything wrong in it.

you know that.

i know it. i resent everything you’ve asked.

you know what i resent dear?

please, I dont want to argue

I resent living next door to the holy family. It makes me look like a bum, you understand?

i can’t do anything about that.

who is he to ruin a man’s life? Everybody knows Joe pulled a fast one to get out of jail.

that’s not true!

then why don’t you go out and talk to people? Go on, talk to them. there’s not a person on the block who doesn’t know the truth.

that’s a lie. people come here all the time for cards and…

so what? they give him credit for being smart. I do, too, i’ve got nothing against Joe. But if Chris wants people to out on the hair shirt let him take off his broadcloth. He’s driving my husband crazy with that phony idealism of his, and i’m at the end of the rope on it! (Chris enters) hello, darling. How’s mother?