sneak peak of a certain scene i’m writing
MRS BERGMANN: Alright then. Just don’t— don’t look at me.
[WENDLA nods and moves so that she is sitting with her back turned to the audience, and MRS BERGMANN sits next to her on the bed, turned the opposite way so she is facing the audience.]
MRS BERGMANN: [With genuine resolve] When a man and a woman… When they get married, they often want to raise children together. You hear me Wendla? Only after marriage.
WENDLA: After marriage, yeah.
MRS BERGMANN: And when they want children, they…
[She pauses, suddenly ashamed. MRS BERGMANN has lost her courage.]
When they want children, they pray to the Lord, and if it is His will, they will have a child.
WENDLA: How?
MRS BERGMANN: That’s all.
WENDLA: [Turning around, skeptical] That’s all?
MRS BERGMANN: Yes.
[A pause, WENDLA glaring at her mother.]
WENDLA: I’m going outside.
[WENDLA storms out of her room, leaving her coat on her bed. MRS BERGMANN thinks about calling her back, but she doesn’t. She folds WENDLA’s coat, holding it close and trying not to cry. MRS BERGMANN was so sure this moment was when she would do things differently from her mother.]
[End of scene.]
