#perhaps the only time in history that the grammar police clutched up

[sparklingcid3r]

I’m so serious when I say that I think the song writers accidentally made Darry canonically gay in the musical. LISTEN TO ME‼️🙏

In RITFR Darry says, “Wish I could settle down with a lady, wish I could, but I can’t.” And yeah, we make jokes about him and his internalized homophobia, how he’s just saying that as a cover, but then I KEPT listening and like…

If Darry wanted to actually settle down with a lady, he would continue the line as “[…] wish I could, but I can’t, BECAUSE I gotta break my back all day.”

That’s what he means, right? He can’t settle down with a lady BECAUSE he’s taking care of Pony and Soda. “I want to do X, but I can’t because of Y.”

Except what he actually ends up saying is “[…] wish I could, but I can’t, so INSTEAD I gotta break my back all day.”

“I want to do X, but I can’t because of Y, so instead I have to do Z.” There’s a whole third variable and we have no idea what it is🧍‍♀️

“Instead” implies he can’t for other reasons besides taking care of his brothers. Other reasons like, oh I don’t know, poor man living in the south in the 60s, let’s put our thinking caps on for this one…

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