OK, since someone next week has to come up with the prompt/bio of Sam Shepard for when we do "Fool For Love" I thought it would be unfair to basically steal their thunder.
The prompt today is fairly simple: Come up with three questions you'd like discussed (or that you think could be discussed) in True West.
For Sam Shepard's "True West" I would like to say first that I was not too crazy about this play. I felt it did not tell a good story with a purpose.
ReplyDeleteA couple questions I'd like to be discussed would be:
1. What was the purpose of Lee's script and why did he drop it without caring at the end of the play?
2. What was the Mother's purpose of apperance and why were her plants and plates so important?
3. Why was Austin so persistant about going out into the desert with Lee?
Also I'd like to hear what you think the play impacted on you.
How is Mom such a terrible mother?
ReplyDeleteThis what I would have to say about the subject if I were in class. I think the mom in this story is a horrible mother and stupid. The fact she thought that Picosso was going to be at the museum in person attests to this. She also shirked off bad behavior by her sons as if it was no big deal. I know there would be hell to pay if all my mom's plants were killed on my watch. It's like the brothers never grew up! Not to mention the beer all over the floor.
Does Austen seem to be going insane?
Throughout the course of the story Austen seems to be losing his mind. I'm getting this from his misplaced emotions throughout key episodes during the story. In the beginning he seems quite normal and responsible, trying to keep his brother under wraps. Throughout the story though it seems he lets things go too far. He let his brother repeatedly use his car, fought away two great job opportunities with the guy he has been working months with to get one project, allowed his brother nonchalantly to beat up his typewriter, which he said writers would give a leg for, agree to write a project with no monetary gain to learn how to live in a desert. This being the same project he declined earlier in the play! And finally he ends up strangling his brother.
What do you think about the theme of westerns?
I found the western theme interesting. The use of coyotes and crickets are very western sound backdrops. Also the use of the western Lee wants to write during this play. In the end it is almost like the two brothers are the characters in Lee's story, facing off like in old westerns.
I won't be in class today, I have the flu.
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