Boxing Daria: Difference between revisions

The scene then cuts to a few days before at the Morgendorffers’. It’s morning and the refrigerator is being replaced. Later that day, at school, [[Jane Lane|Jane]] and [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] talk about [[Tom Sloane|Tom’s]] absence from Lawndale while he attends a family wedding at the Cove. [[Timothy O'Neill|O’Neill]] than asks Daria to serve as a Lawndale High tour guide to upcoming middle school students but is dismayed when Daria refuses. Later, at the Sloane’s, Tom invites Daria to spend a few days at the Cove, but she declines, clearly will at ease.

 

 

Early the next day, Helen notices the box and angrily orders a confused Quinn again to trash it, which she does, fuming. Daria, however, again goes to retrieve it before the trash collectors take it away. Later that day, at school, O’Neill observes the poor result of Kevin and Brittany’s guided tours and again tries to convince Daria to do them, with the teenager still refusing, taking offense at O’Neill’s observations and berating him with unusual harshness. Daria’s bad mood continues during the afternoon: she talks back to her mother about the still un-trashed paperboard box; and even later when she phones Tom, who pleads for Daria to talk to him and again invites her over to the Cove, which she again refuses.

Later that day, when Jake arrives from the conference he had been attending, he and Helen try to make sense of why Daria remains in the box, until Quinn tells them about the past fight. Helen and Jake are able to convince Daria out of the box and the three go inside the house to talk. After some hesitation, Helen and Jake confirm the episode, explaining that they had been under a lot of stress and that the calls from Daria’s school regarding her anti-social behavior had been the last straw, resulting in the fight she remembered. Upon hearing this, Daria suddenly walks out of the house and picks up the car without explanation.

 

 

Some time later, Jane arrives at a road dinner Daria has stopped at and is stunned by the strong hug Daria greets her with. Over coffee, Daria retells Jane the conversation with her parents, explaining to her confused friend why she had run away: she was feeling guilty by the way she had caused them worries and pain by her flippant behavior over the past years, behavior she had considered justified before. Jane consoles her by stating Helen and Jake didn’t seem to mind and advises Daria to talk about it with them. Daria assures she will, adding she just needed to talk before to the most trustworthy person she knew, clearly indicating her friend.