It isn""t real.It doesn""t exist.It""s me, pretending I live on what I earn.It""s my mother, trying to keep herself young and drinking herself old doing it.She and Adam living in this house as though your father was still alive.It""s an old man like the judge, dreaming of the past.Anne, come away with me.Anne: And do what?Jack: Live in a shack and eat red beans.Anne, what do you want me o do?Anne: Oh Jack, you haven""t been sure.You""ve gone from one thing o the other.A year at law school and now this job as a reporter.Jack: Are you afraid I can""t make a living?Anne: Oh no Jack, it isn""t that.I don""t care about the money.It""s just that I, I want you to be something.Jack: What is it you want me to be?Anne: I don""t know.It""s just that I want you to be, to do something important.Jack (sarcastically turning toward the portrait): Like your father? All right, I""ll run for governor.Outside, he couple are greeted by rice-throwers and soon pull away in Michael""s borrowed white Caddy, now decorated with pink crepe-paper flowers and streamers.Anxious about what he might do to his sister and fearing his own increasing insanity, Jesse (although bereft of sleep) took Sta-Up pills and drank caffeinated Coke to keep awake." The reverse of the word, woodpecker, referred o a literally red-headed and red-necked bird.Its second meaning was sexual - the foreskin of a penis (or prepuce) - literally the ""peckerhead."" Another related, similarly-defined term in the film was "Whicker bill."]In the plot, tenant sharecropping farmer""s high-school aged son Marvin Blake (Richard Barthelmess) was pressured to not forget his place in life and to pick cotton in the fields for rich Southern cotton plantation land-owner Lane Norwood (Berton Churchill).She restrained herself from letting out a series of tremendously hysterical sobs.Catching herself in a moment of weakness and self-loathing, she slapped herself and wouldn""t allow it: "Shut up.