![]() ![]() Laurie brings up Nora’s offer, much to her chagrin. Jack suggests to Stan that he ask his boss for a raise. Jack worries about being able to support the large family. Jack’s second job was selling these items to hotels and nightclubs, but the business closed that day and he was left without employment. ![]() They contain noise makers and party favors. Stanley decides to talk it over with his father.Ī tired-looking Jack Jerome arrives home carrying several large boxes. Stanley wants to stand up for his principles, but the family desperately needs the money. To regain his position, he must apologize to his boss. Stanley tells Eugene that he was fired from his job for standing up for a coworker. When Eugene returns, his elder brother Stanley is waiting for him. They discuss their dead father and they resolve to spend no more money on anything so they can buy a house for their mother. Blanche can’t make the decision, leaving it up to Jack when he returns.Įugene’s mother sends him to the store. ![]() Blanche hesitates because it would mean Nora would have to drop out of school, but Nora argues that she could support Blanche and Laurie if she took the job. Nora says that the producer assured her that she would get the part if her mother gave her permission. She has been offered a chance to audition for a dancing role in a Broadway show. Laurie has a heart flutter, and Eugene complains that he has to do everything because of his cousin’s illness.Īs Eugene sets the table, sixteen-year-old Nora comes in and is very excited. Eugene’s writing is interrupted when Kate demands that he come down and set the table instead of Laurie. Eugene’s father, Jack, has worked two jobs to support everyone for three and a half years. He is sent upstairs, and he begins writing in his journal.Įugene tells the audience that his Aunt Blanche and his two cousins, Nora and Laurie, live with his family because Blanche’s husband died of cancer six years ago. He tells the audience that he wants to play professional baseball or be a writer. Eugene’s mother Kate yells at her son to stop the game and come inside. As his ball hits the house, Eugene’s aunt, Blanche Morton, gets a headache. It is about 6:30 in the evening and fourteen-year-old Eugene Morris Jerome is playing a semi-imaginary game of baseball outside. The Jeromes live in a lower middle class neighborhood in Brighton Beach, New York. Brighton Beach Memoirs opens in September, 1937, in the Jerome household. ![]()
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