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This scene is a flashback to the relationship of Paul, the young black con man, and Trent, his connection to the children of each of his targets. Trent and Paul have been seeing each other romantically and Trent, with a wealthy, privileged, boarding school background, finds it alluring to coach Paul in upper class etiquette, speech, and connections. He longs to be connected to someone romantically who his parents will see as worthwhile, so Paul becomes Trent鈥檚 project of improvement, something
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Start: Trent: This is the way you must speak. Hear my accent. Hear my voice. Never say you鈥檙e going horse-back riding. You say you鈥檙e going riding. And don鈥檛 say couch. Say sofa. And you say bodd-ill. It鈥檚 bottle. Say bottle of beer.
End: Paul: That鈥檚 enough for today.
Guare, John, Six Degrees of Separation, Vintage Books, 1994, pp. 76-79.
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