Scene Detail
"If you think I don’t miss you - every single day - then you’re an idiot."
| From: The Hopes and Fears of All the Years |
| Gender |
Age |
Character Name |
| Female |
Adult: Any Age |
MOLLY (1998) / KITTY (1971, 1951) / ABIGAIL (1921) |
Setup:
1971 -
Kitty is staring down her ex-husband Mickey, who she only recently divorced. After Mickey came back from the Korean war, the lingering psychological effects of combat put up a wall between him and Kitty. Despite 19 years of marriage, raising two kids together, and repeated attempts to reach her husband, Kitty couldn’t restore their relationship to what it had once been. It is their first Christmas apart, and neither their now college-age kids, or Mickey’s overprotective family, seem to be taking it well. Kitty and Mickey have cleared the room - none too diplomatically - and now stand, alone, facing one another. Mickey has just said, “I miss you. Don’t you miss me?”
(The full scene which includes this monologue is also available for viewing - the quote link is “You be as boring and morose as you want. That’s what family’s for.”)
|
Monologuecopyright 2002 by Matthew A. Everett
KITTY
(tender, but exhausted)
If you think I don’t miss you - every single day - then you’re an idiot. For the sake of my sanity, I just had to start missing you because you were somewhere else.
You were right there beside me, but it’s like you weren’t there. Like whatever you were, whatever we were before --
We used to work, we worked before, I knew we did. So I was driving myself crazy because I kept thinking “There must be something, anything, that I haven’t tried yet, that could still make this work.”
(pause)
I just had to stop.
Some mornings are harder than others.
We’ll manage. We have to. For them.
It’s a long drive to Mom and Dad’s. Once we get there, they’ll spoil the kids rotten just like they always do. We’ll all get a break from each other. By the time they call you on Christmas morning, it’ll all have blown over.
If not, between my salary and your alimony, we ought to be able to scrape up a decent therapist.
copyright 2002 by Matthew A. Everett
|
