“an’ now she’s askin’ me to go over to her place an’ hang around!!”
Here is the point of Martha’s call. She is extending the olive branch of peace and inviting him to her house. What more can she do? She tried to make up him with him at school. She tried to make up with him on the phone. This seems pretty reasonable to me, but Mike is obsessed with the idea that he has somehow been horribly mistreated by Martha and what she has done to him is unforgivable. He wants to play by the rules he knows, and those rules are, “You can’t talk to your friends about me, I mean, you can’t ‘dump all over’ me.”
“an’ now she’s askin’ me to go over to her place an’ hang around!!”
Here is the point of Martha’s call. She is extending the olive branch of peace and inviting him to her house. What more can she do? She tried to make up him with him at school. She tried to make up with him on the phone. This seems pretty reasonable to me, but Mike is obsessed with the idea that he has somehow been horribly mistreated by Martha and what she has done to him is unforgivable. He wants to play by the rules he knows, and those rules are, “You can’t talk to your friends about me, I mean, you can’t ‘dump all over’ me.”