Rear Window Freedom and Confinement Quotes

How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Rear Window.

Quote #7

STELLA: What do you need money for?

JEFF: To bail Lisa out of jail.

Symbolically, Lisa is enduring confinement in order to help Jeff escape his. Now, that's a girlfriend.

Quote #8

THORWALD: What do you want from me? Your friend, the girl, could have turned me in. Why didn't she? What do you want? A lot of money? I don't have any money. Say something. Say something! Tell me what you want!

Thorwald feels trapped by his circumstances just like Jeff does. Listen to how desperate he sounds. All he wants to do is get away and find some happiness. Is that too much to ask after being trapped with a sickly, complaining, demanding wife? It's a tribute to Raymond Burr that we can even feel some sympathy for Thorwald.