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-The narrators .ie enthusiastica""y to te"" the story throu/hout01 ---Scene 1: An apartment----Actors /ather in a footba"" hudd"e) and then brea2 out to ta2e their positions01 -Mati"da mimes in concert with the narrators' descriptions01 NARRAT3R 14 This is Mati"da) a pretty and charmin/ youn/ woman who happened to be born into a fami"y that didn't ha.e much money0 She fe"t so trapped by her circumstances that she abandoned a"" e5pectations of ha.in/ a better "ife000 NARRAT3R !4 6es) so e.entua""y she married a man who he"d a rather "ow7 payin/ position in a hu/e company0 And her wardrobe000 NARRAT3R 14 0008t was so p"ain and simp"e) main"y because) on her husband's sa"ary) she cou"d on"y afford to shop in second7hand stores0 NARRAT3R !4 But she a"ways fe"t as if she had once been a princess and had somehow fa""en upon hard times0 %er beauty) /race and charm were certain"y se"f7e.ident000 NARRAT3R 14 000and she came to understand that her natura" in/enuity) her instinct for e"e/ance) and her supp"e mind made her the e9ua" of women who were much better off financia""y than she0 NARRAT3R !4 6ou can understand how the bare wa""s) shabby second7hand chairs) and faded hand7me7down curtains in her tiny apartment depressed her and e.en made her000 NARRAT3R 14 000an/ry: 1
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