Writing Assignment Due February 4th: Working on a Dialogue

1. A husband and wife on the brink of divorce clean out the attic of the house they’ve decided to sell, the house they’ve lived in for twenty years. They come across albums of photos taken during their early years of marriage. They honeymoon, the trip to the Grand Canyon, and so on. Tracy opens one, flips to the shot of the two of them. She’s waving to the photographer; her husband’s kissing her cheek. She turns to Mark and speaks.

T = Tracy
M = Mark


T: With tears welling up in her eyes, “What happened to these two people?”
M: Disheartened but realistic, “They changed, that is what happens – people change.”
T: Still optimistic, “Do you think they could even change back, back to the way it was?”
M: Not sharing her same optimism and looking into the future, “No, no I don’t think so.”
T: Crushed again, but not surprised, takes a risk; “Where do we go from here?”
M: Realizing it is his chance to say what has been on his mind for a very long time, “I think that I want a divorce.”
T: The words she never wanted to hear, but knew were coming; she couldn’t respond.
M: Catching on, “I’m sorry Tracy, but I don’t know what else to do. It is to the point where that is the only path I see us going down.”
T: Succumbing to his wishes, even though she wants to try, simply, “Ok, Mark. Ok.”