In His Double Life, A celebrated painter with anxiety issues finds that his valet has suddenly passed away after an illness. Seeking to insulate himself from the public, he tells a visiting physician that he is the valet instead of himself. The doctor pronounces the artist dead, and in the eyes of he world, he is gone. He then takes on the identity of his former servant to begin a new life.
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The Whales of August – Summer in Maine: things are changing. Two elderly widowed sister share a seaside home there. Whales no longer pass close to the shore as they did during the youth. A home where they’ve summered for 50 years. Libby is blind, contrary, and seemingly getting ready to die. Sarah is attentive to her sister, worried about continuing to care for her, and half interested in an old Russian aristocrat who fishes from their shore. It’s the eve of Sarah’s 46th wedding anniversary. The Russian offers some fish he’s caught, Sarah invites him to dinner, and Libby gets her back up. Sarah wonders if it isn’t time to sell the place and find a home for Libby. What alternatives do old people have?
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