But then she went on to explain how she had read it three years earlier and thought it was “overrated”
and how they turned it into a black-and-white film with famous actors like Gregory Peck and Robert Duvall
that won an Academy Award for the screenplay writer. I just kind of put my feelings away somewhere after that.
I left school, walked around, and didn’t get home until one o’clock in the morning.
When I explained to my father why, he told me to act like a man.
The next day in school, when Mary Elizabeth asked where I had been the day before,
I told her that I bought a pack of cigarettes, went to the Big Boy,
and spent the entire day reading the e. e. cummings book and eating club sandwiches.
I knew I was safe saying that because she would never ask me any questions about the book. And I was right.
After she got done talking about it that time, I didn’t think I’d ever really need to read it myself.
Even if I wanted to. I definitely think I should have been honest then, but to tell you the truth,
I was getting as mad as I used to get playing sports, and it was starting to scare me.
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