Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: film follows couple of days in life of Bill Maitland as lawyer as employer as husband as father as friend and as lover, Fact2: 39-year-old Englishman is head of small law firm in London, Fact3: Maitland loses secretary and lover, Fact4: secretary and lover walks out of job and life, Fact5: Anna After hits him dinner party
Output (English): The film follows a couple of days in the life of Bill Maitland, a 39yearold Englishman who is head of small law firm in London and is tortured by his inadequacies as a lawyer, as an employer, as a husband, as a father, as a friend he has none and as a lover for though women succumb quickly to him, he cannot maintain a relationship. Punctuated by interior monologues and imagined scenes, it shows him being abandoned by everybody as they come to realise that they cannot rely on him. He first loses his secretary and lover Shirley, who walks out of her job and his life. His chief clerk Hudson then reveals that he is off to join a rival firm, leaving only the trainee Jones, who scorns him. A client, Mrs Gamsey, leaves the office in tears and is unlikely to return. After a dinner party at which he gets drunk and insults her best friends, his wife Anna hits him and he leaves the marital home. His mistress Liz takes him in, getting insulted for her pains, and he then leaves her to sleep in the office. A client and former lover, Mrs Anderson, has a court hearing that morning at which his feeble defence will probably lose her the case. A new client, Mr Maples, distressed that Maitland seems to take no serious interest in his sad case, walks out in tears. His daughter Jane drops in at his request, only to leave after a tirade of insults. The receptionist Joy, who he has just started an affair with, coldly rejects him and leaves. Liz appears, looking for reconciliation, but after being brutally rejected leaves. Haunted throughout by fears of being disqualified for malpractice, of being arrested and held in jail, of being tried in court, of dying and being cremated, now utterly alone in life he smashes a window and looks at the busy street below, pondering whether to jump.