English Intensive Reading 吉林大学远程教育学院
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				Lesson 4  Text  ( Page 1)
			The Oyster and the Pearl
			by William Saroyan
			CHARACTERS:         HARRY VAN DUSEN, a barber         CLA LARRABEE, a boy on Saturday         VIVIAN McCUTCHEON, the new schoolteacher         CLARK LARRABEE, Clay’s father         MAN, a writer         ROXANNA LARRABEE, Clay’s sister         GREELEY, Clay’s pal         JUDGE APPLEGARTH, a beachcomber (1)         WOZZECK, a watch repairer         (SCENE) Harry Van Dusen’s barber shop in O.K.-by-the-Sea (2), California, population 909. It’s an old-fashioned shop, crowded with stuff not usually found in barber shops…Harry himself, for instance.(3) He has never been known to put on a barber’s white jacket or to work without a hat of some sort on his head.(4)         On the walls, on the shelves, are many odds and ends (5), some apparently washed up by the sea (6), which is a block down the street: shells, rocks, pieces of driftwood, a life jacket, rope, sea plants. There is one old-fashioned chair.         When the play begins, Harry is seated in the chair. A boy of nine or ten named Clay Larrabee is giving him a haircut. Harry is reading a book, one of many in the shop.