The Slump TITLE OF SOURCE: AUTHOR'S NAME - FIRST: LAST: DESCRIPTION: Visual Text MADDEN [coming forward toward his wife]. Are you really safe, Florrie?<br><br>[She looks up with a glance of feeble annoyance.]<br><br>MRS. MADDEN. Sure. I'm all right. [She looks down again.]<br><br>MADDEN [coming still closer]. Oh, I'm so thankful!... I ... I been lookin' for you, Florrie.--Where you been?<br><br>MRS. MADDEN [without looking up]. Wat d' y' say?<br><br>MADDEN. Where you been, Florrie? [With even greater anxiety.] You didn't go down by the river?<br><br>MRS. MADDEN [looking up]. Lord no! W'atev'r made y' think that? [She takes up a chocolate cream and bites off half of it.] I jus' took Mrs. Montanio over t' Brailey's new place f'r a couple o' ice cream sodas. [She looks down again.]<br><br>MADDEN [softly]. Oh. [A shadow passes over his face and vanishes.] Florrie. [He sits down on the left arm of the morris chair and puts his arm affectionately about her shoulders.] I didn't know what I was sayin'.<br><br>MRS. MADDEN [puzzled. Without looking up]. W'at y' talkin' 'bout?<br><br>MADDEN [pathetically]. I guess I ought not to ask you to forgive me. COMMENTS: Visual Text CANDIDATE FOR ADAPTATION?: --- not set --- Not reviewed Promising Unlikely SOURCE MATERIAL: Fable Novella Play Plot summary Short Story -- Parent -- GENRE: Comedy Comic Horror Detective Drama Fable Fairy Tale Fantasy Folklore Folktale Ghost Story Melodrama Mystery Myth Operetta Other Romance Suspense Young Audiences -- Parent -- SETTING: Africa America England Europe Fantasy International New Zealand Pastoral Rural Rustic Science Fiction -- Parent -- LENGTH FOR ADAPTATION: 10 Minutes 15 Minutes 30 Minutes 45 Minutes 60 Minutes 90 Minutes Two Hours -- Parent -- URL FOR PDF DOCUMENT: TheSlump.pdf
