バンビのあらすじ

The story in 7 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   Bambi decides to marry a penniless genius

   The story opens with Bambi accusing her father, Professor James Parkhurst, of being a colossal failure as an educator. He raised her to be happy, she says, but happiness is expensive and pays nothing. She wants to study success and how to get it.

   Then she names her plan. She has chosen Jarvis Jocelyn, a handsome dreamer who writes plays nobody has seen. He cannot or will not earn money, and she argues that he will starve unless someone takes charge of him. She admits she is not in love, only fond and interested. He hardly knows she exists.

   The Professor is a mathematician who counts his steps and once left for class in his pajamas. Bambi has looked after him since she was five, so she is used to impractical men.

   Jarvis arrives after a night in the summerhouse, thrown out by his landlady. He eats like a starving man and barely looks at the girl who cooks his eggs. Then she proposes. He refuses at once, until she offers one of her father's blank notebooks. He grabs it and agrees to anything.

   While Jarvis works, Bambi redeems his clothes and books the Reverend Dr. Short. Jarvis mumbles the responses without waking from his trance and sits down to write the moment it ends. Bambi laughs until she cries.

   A bold plan made out of belief can be a kind of love.

2. 2

   A treaty, a quarrel and a play read aloud

   Two days later Jarvis comes down shaved and sane and learns what happened.

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3. 3

   A secret prize turns into a trip

   Over the following weeks Bambi becomes Jarvis's daily war council.

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4. 4

   New York shows both of them their limits

   That night they see Damaged Goods, a stark play about a social disease.

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5. 5

   Bambi storms the offices Jarvis cannot enter

   So she takes over the selling.

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6. 6

   Jarvis meets the city and its people alone

   Jarvis walks the night streets and sees the sleepers on park benches.

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7. 7

   Letters pass between a husband and a wife

   Frohman wants to turn Francesca into a play.

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