Harry, who empathizes with Dorothy and agrees that she is sick with an illness despite the difficulty for doctors to find a specific diagnosis. Blanche and Rose try to comfort a worried Sophia, who laments on the possibility of outliving her own daughter.ĭorothy visits her friend and pediatrician Dr. Once home, Blanche still has not progressed on writing her novel, and Dorothy is too fatigued to come to dinner. She returns to her hotel with Rose, where Dorothy pretends to put up a front until she eventually breaks down in despair and Rose comforts her. He continues to simplify the problem as her getting older and needing to do something different with her life. Budd is dismissive and short with Dorothy, and repudiates the psychological findings Dorothy provides. When he suggests that Dorothy is suffering mentally instead, Dorothy produces testimony from two other psychologists that she is mentally sound. He, too, reaches the same findings as all of Dorothy's previous doctors. Stevens recommended, but Dorothy remains firm that she would rather be accompanied by Rose since she feels more at ease with her and that Rose believes in Dorothy suffering from a disease. Blanche then postulates that her writer's block could be cured if she went to New York with Dorothy to see the neurologist that Dr. Later that night, Blanche complains of suffering from "writer's block" despite Dorothy mentioning Blanche needs to actually write something to claim suffering from it. This only upsets Sophia, who insists there is something wrong with Dorothy before they leave. Stevens can only suggest that Dorothy is suffering something mental, and suggests the cause may be from depression for leading a widowed, single life. Both Dorothy and Sophia insist there is something wrong, but Dr. Stevens with Sophia, to which he finds nothing clinically wrong with Dorothy after having run multiple tests. Despite having gotten a second opinion already, Dorothy agrees to visit a doctor again and to ask for specialist recommendations.ĭorothy visits Dr. Rose and Sophia worry for Dorothy, mentioning that her illness has persisted for at least five months already, and press her to see a doctor. When Dorothy arrives home, she is uninterested in Blanche's revelation, stating that she feels ill and hardly had any strength to work through the day. While preparing dinner, Blanche announces to Rose and Sophia that she believes her destiny is to become a romance novelist. Meanwhile, Blanche decides to become a novelist. Her struggle to find the cause of her symptoms take her to multiple doctors. After five months of worsening fatigue and pain, Dorothy believes she is seriously ill.
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