The Eavesdropper story
Happily married Donald and Moira are out shopping for a new watch as a gift for Moira. While there, Moira overhears a conversation between two women about a married man one of them is seeing. She soon realizes it must be Donald about whom they are talking. Directed by: John Gorrie. Story by: Ruth Wissmann.
9 total · 5 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with aging | major | Forty-something Moira needed to be reassured that she was still pretty, and she believed she had the 30-something vixen Kaye after her husband. |
| divorce | major | Kaye confided in her friend Louise about her efforts to pressure then man she was seeing to divorce his wife. Moira mulled the possibility of a divorce over in her head. |
| love triangle | major | Kaye, a man named Donald, and Donald's young mistress. Moira thought her husband was having an affair with Kaye. |
| romantic infidelity | major | Moira came to suspect that her husband Donald was cheating on her with a younger woman. |
| romantic jealousy | major | Moira working herself up into a jealous rage culminated with her pushing Kaye out in front of a passing truck. Kaye expressed a jealous resentment over the woman of the man she was having an affair with. |
| developing one's social skills | minor | Moira made a conscious effort to be less of a chatterbox. |
| murder | minor | Moira pushed the mistress in front of a truck. |
| nostalgia | minor | Moira sought to replace the 10th wedding anniversary ring she had lost in Venice. |
| second guessing one's self | minor | Moira after killing the mistress. |