Suddenly Last Summer
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In the next scene Kathy is back in her room, and the doctor wants her to trust him, but she's not sure whose side he is on. She gets an injection to make her sleep, and as she's drifting off, we learn that Sebastian and she were traveling companions. They had traveled to various places but now he was "fed-up with the dark ones, famished for the blond ones", meaning people. "That's the way he talked about people, as if they were items on a menu." Now the doctor visits Violet Venables again at her home. "How did Sebastian die?" "I told you a heart attack." Violet tells the doctor that Sebastian was celibate, and that she herself was the only person who could satisfy the demands Sebastian made of people. They then together visit Kathy in the asylum. | In the next scene Kathy is back in her room, and the doctor wants her to trust him, but she's not sure whose side he is on. She gets an injection to make her sleep, and as she's drifting off, we learn that Sebastian and she were traveling companions. They had traveled to various places but now he was "fed-up with the dark ones, famished for the blond ones", meaning people. "That's the way he talked about people, as if they were items on a menu." Now the doctor visits Violet Venables again at her home. "How did Sebastian die?" "I told you a heart attack." Violet tells the doctor that Sebastian was celibate, and that she herself was the only person who could satisfy the demands Sebastian made of people. They then together visit Kathy in the asylum. | ||
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| + | The next scene, is in the asylum where Violet and Kathy confront each other over their relative worth in Sebastian's life. We now learn that Sebastian left his mother at home because she was too old to "procure for him". But Kathy was young, and able to attract what Sebastian wanted. Violet faints, and Kathy leaves the room. Kathy now goes to the observation deck of her ward and climbs over the railing, evidently thinking about jumping to her death, but is prevented. The head of the asylum tries to pressure the doctor to perform the lobotomy the next day. Next we go to Violet's home, where the doctor, the head of they asylum, Vi, George and Kathy all arrive for the big confrontation. We learn now that Sebastian's coffin was sealed when it arrived and not opened. | ||
