巴特比：哦，老天，没有。
杰克：你发烧了？
黛安：你吸大麻？
巴特比：不，我没有吸毒，也没有喝酒，我完全正常。事实上，我现在再清醒不过了。
杰克：那好，废话少说，巴特比。社会有社会的准则，而第一条准则就是：上大学。
黛安：嗯哼。
杰克：你想拥有快乐而成功的人生吗？那就上大学。你想出人头地？那就上大学。如果你想融入社会，就去上大学！
巴特比：嗯，知道吗？也许我进不了大学。
杰克：你什么意思？
巴特比：所有的学校都拒收我。
黛安：噢，巴特比。
杰克：该死！
黛安：我就说了，他应该从初中开始准备上大学。就像他妹妹。
杰克：现在她做得很好（自豪地）我做得很好。
莉齐：（点点头）她做得很好。
黛安：巴特比：大家听着。有很多成功人士没有上过大学。爱因斯坦，你们知道的。波卡洪塔斯（《风中奇缘》中的公主）从没有上过大学。科里？费尔德曼，还有科里？海姆（两人均为演员），他们都事业有成。还有刘易斯（《纳尼亚传奇》的作者）和克拉克（鞋业大亨）、苏珊娜？萨默斯（电影演员）、博诺（生前曾为美国国会众议员，也曾是演艺界知名人士）。
黛安：我得去看看皮鞋匠那里是不是收学徒。“皮鞋匠”。咕，咕，咕。
巴特比：杰克：知道吗，我真不关心索尼？博诺做了什么或者没做什么。你得上大学。莉齐：我说过了吧。巴特比：你的意见被采纳了。
对白分析
巴特比眼看高中毕业，可是他开心不起来，因为他向好几所大学投递的申请都被拒绝，就连他认为最有把握的本州州立大学也拒绝了他。这事怎么告诉父母呢？巴特比决定凭自己的三寸不烂之舌，让父母心平气和地接受他没有被任何一所高校录取的现实。然而这怎么可能呢？父母了解清楚情况后，勃然大怒，对巴特比讲的那套“许多成功人士并未就读大学”的解释嗤之以鼻，始终认为：只有进入大学，明天才有希望，勒令他不管怎样都必须考上大学。
我们之前曾提到，和英音相比，美音的一大特色就是发元音是常常口型较大，在语速较快时尤其如此，且声音给人以夸张感。在这节对话中，几个人的说话都明显地体现了美音的这一特征，例如：
Sentence American British
1.Diane：You’re huffing grass？ /ɡr？s/ /ɡrɑ：s/
2.Jack：Now，she’s got a shot. /ɡ？t//？？t/ /ɡ？t//？？t/
3.Bartleby：You were adopted. /？"d？ptid/ /？"d？ptid/
对以上例句中英美不同发音多比较，多模仿，才能真正掌握不同特征的英语的发音规则。
对白二
In the main hall of the State Board of Education，Bartleby and his classmates of S.H.I.T sat down for the hearing about of the legitimacy of their self-founded institute.Dr.Alexander，the Chairman of the board，asked Bartleby to make a presentation.
Bartleby：Oh，God.Okay.(clearing throat)Uh，Ladies and gentlemen of the panel1，thank you for meeting with us.Um，my name’s Bartleby Gaines and I’m the co-founder of South Harmon Institute of Technology.
All are cheering.
Bartleby：Sorry.Friends of mine.Um，I’m…I’m sorry，first of all，w-what were those three things that you listed？
Dr.Alexander：A facility2，a curriculum3 and a faculty4.
Bartleby：Facility，right.Okay，well，we definitely have a facility.Uh，we have a common room，we have dorm rooms.Uh，we have a skateboard ramp5.We got a tiki6 bar.Umm...
Van Horne：They have leased an old mental hospital7.They have none of the traditional support facilities or resources.
Dr.Alexander：Mr.Gaines，do you have a formal athletic facility？
Bartleby：Okay，uh，by formal you mean...No.No，we don’t.
Dr.Alexander：A library？
Bartleby：No.
Dr.Alexander：A health services center？
Bartleby：No.No.
Dr.Alexander：Your curriculum？
Bartleby：Our curriculum？
Dr.Alexander：Yes.Do you have a course book？A comprehensive list of your available classes？Bartleby：Oh，yeah，absolutely.Uh，Sunshine.Can you...
Bartleby asked the boy named Sunshine standing at the back of the hall to open the gate.Three girls pushed in the white board full of the courses written by the students themselves.All are cheering.
Dr.Alexander：What is this？
Bartleby：Our curriculum.These are the courses we offer at South Harmon.
Van Horne：This is a joke.“Slacking8 101”？Uh，tell me，Mr.Gaines，how does one major in bumper stickers9？
Bartleby：Sir，um...
Dr.Alexander：I’m sorry，Mr.Gaines.I fail to see any merit10 or scholastic11 value in anything listed on that board.
Bartleby：(Turning back to his classmates)Okay，uh，guys，you want to help me out here？
Rory：In“Taking A Walk and Thinking About Stuff”，we get to think about what we want to do with our lives in a stress-free environment.
Hands：“Let It Speak To You 202”is an art class in which we discover our talents by examining our personal life experiences.
A boy：In“Skateboarding 234”we built a ramp that teaches us about engineering...Another boy：And physics.
A boy：And aerodynamics12.
Rock music lover：In“Rock Our Faces Off 222”we listen to the music and lyrical13 angst14 of a lost generation.And we rock our faces off.
The students are cheering wildly.
Bartleby：They do.
Dr.Alexander：Do you have faculty present？
Bartleby：Yes，we do，sir.
Glen：Faculty，stand.
All the students stood up.
Dr.Alexander：What is the meaning of this？
Bartleby：See，at South Harmon，sir，the students are the teachers.
Van Horne：Aw，this is preposterous15.Students are not and cannot be teachers.
Dr.Alexander：Dean Van Horne is right.You must have a faculty as defined by the state，or you cannot be accredited16.Mr.Gaines，have you employed a faculty or not？
Bartleby：Um...Lewis：Present and accounted for17.
Van Horne：Oh，for God’s sake.Dr.Alexander，this man has not been a part of academia18 for three decades.We were on the faculty together at Harmon in our late 20s，and he washed out19.He’s a drunk20，he’s a degenerate21，and he’s Looney Tunes22.
Schrader：Hey，asshole！You’re talking about my mom’s brother！
Van Horne：Oh，sit down！
Schrader：Okay.
Lewis：Hey！Why don’t you take your PhD and shove23 it up your A-S-S？
The students were jeering and the Chairman was pounding the table gravelly with the hammer.
Dr.Alexander：Settle down right this minute！Dean Lewis！Sit down.Order！
Lewis：(To Bartleby)Couldn’t help myself.
Dr.Alexander：So，is that it，Mr.Gaines？You have one formal teacher for upwards of 300 students？Mr.Gaines.Answer the question.
Bartleby：Nah，I’m not gonna answer your question，’cause you guys have already made up your minds.I’m an expert in rejection24，and I can see it on your faces.And it’s too bad that you judge us by the way we look and not by who we are.Just because you want us to be more like them when the truth is we’re not like them.And I am damn proud of that fact.
The students were cheering aloud.
Bartleby：I mean，Harmon College and their—and their 100 years of tradition.But tradition of what？Of hazing25 kids and humiliating26 anyone who’s a little bit different？Of putting so much pressure on kids they turn into these—these stress freaks27 and caffeine addicts28.
Van Horne：Your phony29 school demeans30 real colleges everywhere！