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Mrs. Keeney begged her husband, the Captain of the steam whaling ship the Atlantic Queen, to bring her on the whaling journey so she didn鈥檛 have to stay at home alone. She started out as a kind, lovely, positive woman and now she doesn鈥檛 speak to anyone but her husband. It鈥檚 now been two years and they have been stuck in ice for a year. She has been slowly descending into madness, and in this scene she is pleading with her husband to turn the ship around and take her home. She eventually
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Start: KEENEY: (putting an arm around her shoulder--with gruff tenderness) There, there, Annie. Don't be afeard. It's all past and gone.
MRS. KEENEY: (shrinking away from, him) Oh, I can't bear it! I can't bear it any longer!
KEENEY: (gently) Can't bear what, Annie?
MRS. KEENEY: (hysterically) All this horrible brutality, and these brutes of men, and this
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