[The camera motion signifies Jeffrey""s feverish, dream-like descent into his own subconscious.From this point until the end of the film, Jeffrey takes a psychic, internal journey through his own dark side of desires and fears.This is my neighborhood.This is my street.This is my life.I am 42 years old.In less than a year, I""ll be dead.Of course, I don""t know that yet, and in a way, I""m dead already.After awakening one morning, the highlight of his day was masturbating in the shower (he was seen jerking off from the back through a foggy glass shower enclosure):(voice-over) Look at me, jerking off in the shower.Mrs.Vale: Go to your cabin.(Charlotte, in voice-over) I had said I was glad, and I was glad.He had defied my mother and placed me on a throne - and before a witness too.It was the proudest moment of my life.My moment didn""t last long, as you can see.My mother didn""t think hat Leslie was suitable for a Vale of Boston.The film returns to the present, as the pages of the book flip forward.Charlotte (with her back to the camera) wrings her hands in front of a window where rain strikes the panes, speaking of her entire aborted life:What man is suitable, doctor? She""s never found one.BackgroundMiracle on 34th Street(1947) is director George Seaton""s popular and perennial Thanksgiving and Christmas classic holiday film - a dramatic comedy-fantasy about the commercialization of Santa Claus (Kris Kringle) and Christmas itself.