:16:00
Mansfield Park?
You've got to be kidding.
:16:02
- No.
- But it's a notoriously bad book.
:16:05
Even Lionel Trilling,
one of her greatest admirers, thought that.
:16:08
Well, if Lionel Trilling thought that,
he's an idiot.
:16:10
( Scoffs ) The whole story
revolves around, what...
:16:14
the immorality of a group of young people
putting on a play.
:16:16
In the context of the novel
it makes perfect sense.
:16:19
But the context of the novel,
and nearly everything Jane Austen wrote...
:16:22
is near ridiculous
from today's perspective.
:16:24
Has it ever occurred to you that today,
looked at from Jane Austen's perspective...
:16:27
would look even worse?
:16:36
You must be freezing
dressed in that.
:16:38
- It has a lining.
- What kind of lining is it?
:16:42
You gonna wear a raincoat all winter?
:16:44
Princeton's south of here.
I guess it's a lot warmer.
:16:47
No, I just didn't know
where to get a good overcoat.
:16:50
Uh, Brooks,J. Press, Tripler-
:16:52
Actually, I haven't had time to buy one.
:16:55
( Orchestra; ''The Blue Danube Waltz'')
:17:05
( Continues )
:17:16
( Tom ) I'm not sure I wanna go back to Princeton
next year. It's too much of a country club for me.
:17:20
You really shouldn't
treat Serena that way.
:17:22
- What?
- Giving her the silent treatment.
:17:25
- I'm not giving her the silent treatment.
- ( Chuckles ) Come on.
:17:28
I'm not giving her the silent treatment.
I just don't have anything to say to her.
:17:31
Listen, I know you're angry with her.
You're probably right to be.
:17:34
But it's still not right to treat her that way.
I think Serena really feels hurt by it.
:17:37
Oh, give me a break!
:17:39
Serena Slocum, a real feeling?
:17:41
- Serena's basically a good person.
- ( Scoffs )
:17:44
- She has feelings like anybody else.
- I find that very hard to believe.
:17:48
All this is - is pretty deceptive.
:17:51
- All what?
- Well, I -
:17:54
I think that - that -
that we are all, in a sense, doomed.
:17:57
What are you talking about?
:17:59
Downward social mobility.