There's a smile in Stephin's voice in the first couple of lines, he's mocking the clown's little self-fulfilling prophecy of unloveability, his confident "and I know". Why doesn't he just change his outfit?? But it feels a little sympathetic too. In the end the clown gets to look down on us all, having defied our shallow hearts and their petty standards to the last.
There's a smile in Stephin's voice in the first couple of lines, he's mocking the clown's little self-fulfilling prophecy of unloveability, his confident "and I know". Why doesn't he just change his outfit?? But it feels a little sympathetic too. In the end the clown gets to look down on us all, having defied our shallow hearts and their petty standards to the last.