Highlight details that help you understand how Eugene feels.

EUGENE (Turns to the audience again) She gets all this special treatment because the doctors say she has kind of a flutter in her heart . . . I got hit with a baseball right in the back of the skull, I saw two of everything for a week and I still had to carry a block of ice home every afternoon . . . Girls are treated like queens. Maybe that’s what I should have been born – an Italian girl.

—Brighton Beach Memoirs,
Neil Simon

What is Eugene’s perspective about boys and girls in this scene?

Girls are weaker than boys.
Girls get sick more easily.
Boys don’t need any care.
Boys have it rougher than girls.