Catherine’s Monologue
A few minutes earlier, when I was dancing with Rodolpho to “Paper Doll,” I started thinking. I started thinking how much my life had changed these past few months, and how much I have changed. My life has changed in that I have two new people in it, one of which I think I love. I have a job and I now feel more independent. It’s a good feeling. Well that’s setting the scene for you, I guess its time to let it all out.
Eddie has been like a surrogate father to me. I’ve always felt comfortable around him; I’ve been able to talk to him… but lately, all that security has just dissolved. It’s almost the opposite. We can’t have a normal conversation without fighting. I mean for example, a few days ago I came home with Rodolpho from a movie at the paramount. I started telling him about movie, I was so excited. But all he did was start-shooting questions as me, “ Where’d you go? Brooklyn Paramount?” Of course I went to Brooklyn Paramount! Where else would I go? He knows that I wouldn’t go to New York! Then he tells Rodolpho he wants to talk to me alone. He starts telling me how he never sees me anymore, his face looked so sad. I started to reassure him, that of course he still saw me, it was just Rodolpho wanted to do so much, see so many things, so I take him. Suddenly he asked me, “Do you like him?” I answered, “Yes”, and it all went down hill from there. He started saying horrible things like, Rodolpho was only interested in my to gain citizenship and how he was only using me and had no respect for me. That wasn’t Eddie speaking. I had never known Eddie to be like that ever. Sure, he had always been slightly over-protective, but never like this before.
