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    This summary is of a monologue from the Neil Simon play Brighton Beach Memoirs. The speaker expresses resentment towards their mother for not allowing them independence and for favoring their sick sister Laurie their whole life. They felt invisible to their mother and that she only had room in her life for their father and sister. The speaker recalls wishing they could be injured or sick to get affection and closeness from their mother that was always given to their sister instead.

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    This summary is of a monologue from the Neil Simon play Brighton Beach Memoirs. The speaker expresses resentment towards their mother for not allowing them independence and for favoring their sick sister Laurie their whole life. They felt invisible to their mother and that she only had room in her life for their father and sister. The speaker recalls wishing they could be injured or sick to get affection and closeness from their mother that was always given to their sister instead.

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    This summary is of a monologue from the Neil Simon play Brighton Beach Memoirs. The speaker expresses resentment towards their mother for not allowing them independence and for favoring their sick sister Laurie their whole life. They felt invisible to their mother and that she only had room in her life for their father and sister. The speaker recalls wishing they could be injured or sick to get affection and closeness from their mother that was always given to their sister instead.

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    Nora's Monologue Brighton Beach

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    This summary is of a monologue from the Neil Simon play Brighton Beach Memoirs. The speaker expresses resentment towards their mother for not allowing them independence and for favoring their sick sister Laurie their whole life. They felt invisible to their mother and that she only had room in her life for their father and sister. The speaker recalls wishing they could be injured or sick to get affection and closeness from their mother that was always given to their sister instead.

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    Playwright: Neil Simon

    Play: Brighton Beach Memoirs

    I can’t believe it.

    You mean it’s alright for you to leave us but it wasn’t alright for me to leave you?

    It was my future

    Why couldn’t I have something to say about it?

    I need to be independent.

    So I have to give up the one chance I may never get again, is that it?

    I’m the one who has to pay for what you couldn’t do with your own life.

    I’m not judging you.

    I can’t even talk to you.

    I don’t exist to you.

    I have tried so hard to get close to you, but there was never any room.

    Whatever you had to give went to Daddy, and when he died, whatever was left you gave to
    Laurie…

    I have been jealous my whole life of Laurie because she was lucky enough to be born sick.

    I could never turn a light on in my room at night or read in bed because Laurie always needed
    her precious sleep.

    I could never have a friend over on the weekends because Laurie was always resting.

    I used to pray I’d get some terrible disease or get hit by a car so I’d have a leg all twisted and
    crippled and then once,
    maybe just once,

    I’d get to crawl into bed next to you on a cold, rainy night and talk to you and hold you until I
    fell asleep in your arms…

    Just once...

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