How we cite our quotes: (Line)
Quote #4
"I don't understand my feelings. I really don't. I don't understand how I could hate you so much after so much time. How, no matter how much I'd like to not hate you, I hate you even more. It grows. I can't even see you now. All I see is a picture of you. You and her. I don't even know if the picture's real anymore. I don't even care. It's a made-up picture. It invades my head. The two of you. And this picture stings even more than if I'd actually seen you with her. It cuts me. It cuts me so deep I'll never get over it. And I can't get rid of this picture either. It just comes. Uninvited. Kinda' like a little torture. And I blame you more for this little torture than I do for what you did." (127)
Apparently May is pretty torn up by jealousy regarding the Countess, unable to get the image of Eddie and this other woman out of her mind. It's so bad, in fact, that she likens it to torture—that's pretty intense.
Quote #5
EDDIE: (makes a move toward her upstage) You been seeing somebody?
MAY: (she moves quickly down left, crosses right) When was the last time we were together, Eddie? Huh? Can you remember that far back?
EDDIE: Who've you been seeing? (He moves violently toward her.)
MAY: Don't you touch me! Don't you even think about it.
EDDIE: How long have you been seeing him! (136-140)
Now that the tables are turned, and Eddie has to deal with the thought of May being with another man, he does not like it. Even though he was stepping out on May left and right (and didn't have the decency to admit it outright), the idea that May moved on after Eddie abandoned her brings him close to violence here.
Quote #6
MAY: It'll be the same thing over and over again. We'll be together for a little while and then you'll be gone.
EDDIE: I'll be gone.
MAY: You will. You know it. You just want me now because I'm seeing somebody else. As soon as that's over, you'll be gone again.
EDDIE: I didn't come here because you were seein' somebody else! I don't give a damn who you're seeing! You'll never replace me and you know it! (206-209)
May thinks that the intensity of Eddie's current interest in her is all about jealousy—without the jealousy, in her view, he'd be hitting the road. We're not sure she's right about that, but he definitely is jealous.