A Girl Cut in Two

After winning a book at auction writer Charles tells weather girl Gabrielle of the author, "He was a fabulous erotomaniac." (0:33)

Charles responds to his wife Dona, referring to Playboy Paul and, "The impertinence of an inferiority complex." (0:52)

Gabrielle's mother Marie tells her brother Denis, referring to depressed Gabrielle, "She just lies there." When he asks whether she has seen a doctor, Marie replies, "He says that if she keeps it up he'll hospitalized her."
Denis: "What do you think she wants?"
Marie: "I think she wants to die." (1:07)

Paul, upset with Gabrielle because she seems unable to forget Charles, pulls a pistol to his head and pulls the trigger, but the firearm fails to discharge. (1:27)

inferiority complex | suicide