Strickland Monologue from A PlayBy J. H. SpeenhoffTranslated from the Dutch

From A PlayBy J. H. SpeenhoffTranslated from the Dutch by A. V. C. P. Huizinga and Pierre Loving.

male · anguished · 54 sec

He managed to live. It wasn't pleasant living. But he stayed alive! I don't like to think of what he did to stay alive: it was humiliating; it was shameful, because he hadn't been brought up to do that kind of thing, but it was honest. Honest, and when he walked home from his work at six o'clock, walked home to save the nickel, his betters never crowded him because they didn't want to soil their clothes with his honest dirt! He had thought the year in jail was terrible. The first year he was free was worse. He had never been hungry in jail.

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