Dick Merton Monologue from Joy: A Play on the Letter "I"

From Joy: A Play on the Letter "I" by John Galsworthy

male · anguished · 59 sec

(Earnestly.) All rules have exceptions; that's true, you know; it's a proverb. (JOY: It can't be true about marriage--how can it when----?) (With intense earnestness.) But look here, Joy, I know a really clever man--an author. He says that if marriage is a failure people ought to be perfectly free; it isn't everybody who believes that marriage is everything. Of course, I believe it 's sacred, but if it's a failure, I do think it seems awful--don't you? (JOY: I don't know--yes--if-- But it's my own Mother!) (Gravely.) I know, of course. I can't expect you to see it in your own case like this. (With desperation.) But look here, Joy, this'll show you! If a person loves a person, they have to decide, have n't they? Well, then, you see, that 's what your Mother's done.

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