Monologue

Jim Monologue from The Second-Story Man

From The Second-Story Man by Upton Sinclair

male · anguished · 1:44 min

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It's the sort of thing you couldn't believe unless you saw it. But I saw it. I didn't care, though. I was a fool. And then my time came. (MRS. AUSTIN: How do you mean?) A blast furnace blew out, and a piece of slag hit me here, where you see that patch. If it wasn't for the patch you'd see something that would make you sick. It was a pain you couldn't tell about... it was a couple of days before I knew where I was. And the first thing when I came to my senses... in the hospital, it was... there was a lawyer chap with a paper waiting for me. (MRS. AUSTIN: A lawyer?) Yes, ma'am. Company representative, you know. And I was to sign the paper... it was a receipt for the hospital expenses... the operation and all that... you see they had to take out what was left of my eye. And of course I couldn't see... I had to sign where he told me to. And when I got well, I found they had trapped me into signing a release.

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30s · sadness · betrayal · suffering · power · isolation

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