The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams
Author:Tennessee Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New Directions
SERAFINA: The call is ten cents for three minutes. Is the line busy?
ALVARO: Not the line, but the boss.
SERAFINA: And the charge for the call goes higher. That ainât the phone of a millionaire youâre using!
ALVARO: I think you talk a poor mouth. [He picks up the piggy and shakes it.] This pig sounds well fed to me.
SERAFINA: Dimes and quarters.
ALVARO: Dimes and quartersâre better than nickels and dimes. [Serafina rises severely and removes the piggy bank from his grasp.] Ha, ha, ha! You think Iâm a bank robber?
SERAFINA: I think you are maleducato! Just get your boss on the phone or hang the phone up.
ALVARO: What, what! Mr. Siccardi? How tricks at the Southern Fruit Compâny this hot afternoon? Ha, ha, ha!âMangiacavallo!âWhat? You got the complaint already? Sentite, per favore! This road hog wasâMr. Siccardi? [He jiggles the hook; then slowly hangs up.] A man with three dependents!âout of a job . . . [There is a pause.]
SERAFINA: Well, you better ask the operator the charges.
ALVARO: Oofa! A man with three dependentsâout of a job!
SERAFINA: I canât see to work no more. I got a suggestion to make. Open the bottom drawer of that there bureau and you will find a shirt in white tissue paper and you can wear that one while I am fixing this. And call for it later. [He crosses to the bureau.]âIt was made for somebody that never called for it. [He removes the package.] Is there a name pinned to it?
ALVARO: Yes, itâs . . .
SERAFINA [fiercely, but with no physical movement]: Donât tell me the name! Throw it away, out the window!
ALVARO: Perchè?
SERAFINA: Throw it, throw it away!
ALVARO [crumpling the paper and throwing it through the window]: Ecco fatto! [There is a distant cry of children as he unwraps the package and holds up the rose silk shirt, exclaiming in Latin delight at the luxury of it.] Colore di rose! Seta! Seta pura!âOh, this shirt is too good for Mangiacavallo! Everything here is too good for Mangiacavallo!
SERAFINA: Nothingâs too good for a man if the man is good.
ALVARO: The grandson of a village idiot is not that good.
SERAFINA: No matter whose grandson you are, put it on; you are welcome to wear it.
ALVARO [slipping voluptuously into the shirt]: Ssssssss!
SERAFINA: How does it feel, the silk, on you?
ALVARO: It feels like a girlâs hands on me! [There is a pause, while he shows her the whiteness of his teeth.]
SERAFINA [holding up her broken spectacles]: It will make you less trouble.
ALVARO: There is nothing more beautiful than a gift between people!âNow you are smiling!âYou like me a little bit better?
SERAFINA [slowly and tenderly]: You know what they should of done when you was a baby? They should of put tape on your ears to hold them back so when you grow up they wouldnât stick out like the wings of a little kewpie! [She touches his ear, a very slight touch, betraying too much of her heart. Both laugh a little and she turns away, embarrassed.
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