Fictional Americans do confess sometimes. I'm searching memory for examples, and coming up only with "The Maltese Falcon," but it seems to me that there are a number of American detective movies that finish with dialog along the lines of:
"Drop the act, doll. I know you did it.""You're right. I'm rotten to the core. I've always been rotten. I killed him because he had it coming."
I write the part for a woman because I don't remember men confessing in the same manner. And then, of course, there's the "He had it coming" song in "Chicago." I bet people confessed in T.V. detective shows of a certain era. Rumpole of the Bailey is always quoting British movies of that post war era, "Cor, luv a duck, I give up, guv. You've got me bang to rights."
Which is a confession, of sorts. David Ritchie, Portland, Oregon ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
