KATE How many times have I told you not to leave your things around the house? EUGENE A hundred and nine. KATE What? EUGENE You said yesterday, "I told you a hundred and nine times not to leave your things around the house." BLANCHE Don't be fresh to your mother, Gene! EUGENE (To the audience) Was I fresh? I swear . . . That's what she said to me yesterday . . . One day I'm going to put all this in a book or a play. I'm going to be a writer like Ring Lardner or somebody -- that's if things don't work out first with the Yankees, or the Cubs, or the Red Sox, or maybe possibly the Tigers . . . If I get down to the St. Louis Browns, then I'll definitely be a writer. —Brighton Beach Memoirs, Neil Simon Explain Eugene's perspective on what's happening in this scene. Support your response with details from the text. .