Elizabeth returns home from school to find her mother, Claire, deeply immersed in her obsessive botanical experiments. The scene highlights the profound emotional and intellectual disconnect between Claire's radical pursuit of new life forms and Elizabeth's conventional, superficial worldview.
HARRY: Why, you don't do portraits.
DICK: I did one of you the other day. You thought it was a milk-can.
ELIZABETH: No? Not really? Did you think—How could you think—Oh, I beg your pardon. I—Does mother grow beautiful roses now?
HARRY: No, she does not.
CLAIRE: Careful, Elizabeth. We mustn't upset t
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