Educating rita russell9/9/2023 ![]() When Rita comes in she sees a very drunk Frank tottering around his room, angry and flustered. He grudgingly admits it would fit in with the rest of them. She says she is not, and then asks about her essay. Appalled, Rita says she is not in love at all, and Frank says she ought to stop going on and on about Tyson. She muses that one of the crazier ones is named Tyson but everyone calls him Tiger.įrank asks if there is a point to going over his essay if she will just fall in love and go off to the South of France. Surprised, Frank says she can’t go because of exams, then when she corrects him on their date says she has to wait for his result. She said the others agreed with her and one invited her to come with them to the South of France for Christmas. Frank sighs and says she ought to be herself, and she says that she is.įrank notices grass on her back and she says she was sitting with the students on the lawn talking after she’d been bold enough to go up to one loud-mouthed one and tell him he could not possibly defend his thesis that Lady Chatterley's Lover was better than Sons and Lovers. She says she has decided to talk properly now, thanks to Trish’s counsel and help. Her voice is different and Frank asks about that. Rita comes in and apologizes for being late. Frank pulls out William Blake and says maybe that will cheer her up, but is surprised when Rita says she has read and studied it all she even recites a poem from memory.įrank is marking up essays. Rita is quiet, then says he can be a “real misery sometimes” (61) and has ruined her good mood. Nevertheless, he will be glad to see her go because she shouldn't stay in a room like this. Frank sadly says what shall he do when Rita is no longer there once she has “reformed” him? She protests that she is not going anywhere but he says it is inevitable. She does not understand why, and he says “Life is such a deep and fantastic whirl that I need the drink to help me step delicately through it” (60). Frank gently but rudely mocks her analogy, mentioning soil and water as well.Īs Frank pulls out a poet for her, she espies his whiskey bottle and asks if he is still on the stuff. She then tries to open his window but it’s shut tightly she talks about needing to air out the room because it’s like a plant. Rita says she wants to study a great dead poet and suggests going down to the grass to sit but Frank doesn't want to do that. Then she pulls out a gift for Frank -a pen engraved with “Must only be used for poetry," which she laughingly explains is supposed to get him back into his writing. She describes her as “dead classy” and full of taste (57). Rita mentions a woman named Trish in the conversation, who is her new flatmate. He says Julia left him, stemming from something to do with eggs. He says it was hot and brings out a gift for her - cigarettes - but she says she quit. She asks Frank how France was and he says there is not much to tell. She even asked the professor a question one time in lecture, and never felt weird about it again. She said she was scared at first, and recounted a story of how she wanted to make a flippant remark when a tutor asked her a question about a poet, but she decided not to. They still worked, though there were lots of essays to write. She says London and summer school were fantastic she’d met a group of people that she stuck with and they all went to the theater and out drinking. Frank is typing and drinking when Rita comes in, twirling around in her new (second hand) clothes, beaming.
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