DODGE struggles to walk toward TILDEN and falls. TILDEN ignores him.
“DODGE: Tilden you shut up You shut up about it” ………..
“DODGE: Tilden Don’t tell her anything Don’t tell her Shepard, 1976; 39
4.2.2.3 Dodge against Bradley.
Bradley is one of the peripheral characters. Bradley is Dodge’s the second son. Bradley is describing an incomplete one-legged bully, vicious. When Hallie
and Father Dewis come after they had lunch. Bradley is sleeping on the sofa under Dodge’s blanket. Dodge wants his blanket back to him. Dodge does not want to
share his things with everyone even with his own son. His things only belongs to him, should not be anyone.
“DODGE: gimme back hat coat That coat for live flesh not dead wood”
HALLIE whips the blanket off BRADLEY and throws it on DODGE. DODGE covers his head again with the blanket.
BRADLEY’S amputated leg can be faked by having half it under a cushion of the sofa. He’s fully clothed. BRADLEY sits
up with a jerk when the blanket comes off him. “HALLIE: as she tosses blanket Here Use this11It’s yours
anyway Can’t you take care of your self for once” “BRADLEY: yelling at Hallie Gimme the blanket Gimme
back that blanket That’s my blanket” Shepard, 1976; 49
When Shelly said to Bradley that she have known all about the secret. Bradley still pretends that everything is the way it is supposed to be. Nothing ever
happened that’s bad. Then, Dodge says if Shelly wants him to speak the secret. Bradley and Hallie become angry because they think in previous years later they
have made a pact. Dodge can not break the pact, but he did. Bradley tries to make Dodge to not tell the secret, but Dodge ignores Bradley.
“BRADLEY: No don’t listen to him. He doesn’t remember anything.”
“DODGE: I remember the whole thing from start to finish. I remember the day he was born.”
Pause. “HALIE: Dodge, if you tell this things-if you tell this, you’ll be
dead to me. You’ll be just as good as dead.” “DODGE: That won’t be such a big change, Hale. See this girl,
this girl here, she wants to know. She wants to know something more. And I got this feeling that it doesn’t make a bit a
difference. I’d sooner tell it to a stranger than anybody else.” “BRADLEY: to Dodge We made a pact We made a pact
between usyou can’t break that now” “DODGE: I don’t remember any pact.” Shepard, 1976; 56
4.2.2.4 Dodge against Vince
