The Diningroom

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I have been working on a scene from The Dining Room by A. R. Gurney. This play is a compilation of different scenes that make up one play. None of the scenes have anything do with one another, but they are all linked together in the one aspect that they all have to do with a dining room. The scenes are all totally different involving different people and different situations, but the play is supposed to show how important the dining room is and how much goes on in the dining room.

Jim is an old man; he is retired and lives with his long time wife. Jim snores so his wife had to kick him out of their room and he sleeps in his daughter's old room. I imagine Jim to be fairly wealthy. Due to the fact that he has had live-in maids before.

Jim seems like your typical old man. He wants to be supportive of his daughter who is going through some very har

d times, and wants to come home. But at the same time he has passed his prime, and can not have little kids running around all the time making noise. Jim tries to convince his daughter to go back to her husband, and fight to get him back. In the end when she says that she can go back, her father says neither can he. Jim leads a pretty laid back life; he has a drink at about the same time every day.

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(Quietly) "Neither can I, sweetheart. Neither can I."

This phrase is from the very end of the play when Meg tells Jim that se cant go back to her husband who has a new lady in his life. She says that she has been having all these problems in her life, and than says that she can not go back to the screwed up life that she has been living. This shows us a good example of what

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Approximate Word count = 577
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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