The play began in the living room of Ann and Peter’s apartment. Ann and Peter are married and have two daughters in which they were never present. Peter is a book editor and spends most of this time dwelled in his work than his family. In the play, Ann and Peter began to have a conversation about issues in their lives and marriage. For instance, Ann having trouble to sleep at night. Ann tells Peter that she wakes up in the middle of the night and leaves the bedroom while he is sleeping. Peter then informs her that he knows she wakes up and leaves the room. Ann questions Peter why he has never asked her where she goes in the middle of the night and becomes upset. Moreover, she started telling Peter about her thoughts of getting a mastectomy …show more content…
Ann then reminded Peter that it was a thought. She told him that that thought came to her after her mother told her she had decided to have an affair. Peter started to think that Ann might also want to have an affair. Peter starts to question her and vice versa about any intentions of an affair and both admit that they did not. Ann and Peter then started to discuss other issues they had. For instance, their marriage. Ann expressed that Peter does not love her the way she wants him to lover her. She then started to tell Peter that it is frightening for her that their marriage is “pleasant voyage on a calm sea”. Then she reveals she is referring to their sex life. Ann complimented Peter for his excellence in making love, subsequently, telling him that he was horrible at intense, spontaneous, wild, and rough sex. Peter then tells Ann that when he was in college, he hooked up with a girl who asked for rough sex in which he lost control and seriously hurt the girl. After Peter’s story, Ann explained to him that she does not want painful sex but being animals in bed. At the end, she slaps Peter and kisses him subsequently saying she wants I little chaos in their perfect lives. Peter then leaves …show more content…
While peter was reading a book, a stranger named Jerry approaches him. Jerry started to rumble that he has been to the zoo. Jerry then captures Peter attention and began to talk. Jerry then started to question Peter about his home and work life. Furthermore, Jerry tells Peter about his experience, where he lives and his relationships. After, Jerry tells a story about a dog. In the apartment where Jerry live, there is a dog that hates Jerry. Jerry has tried many ways to win the dog over with kindness. He would go to a burger joint and buy a hamburger to feed the dog. He did this for few days. After the dog was finished eating, he would start to attack Jerry. Jerry then got tired and decided to kill the dog. He purchased a hamburger and rat poison to kill the dog. He fed it to the dog and the dog became very sick. The dog surprisingly did not die and recovered. The dog then never attacked Jerry again. Jerry then realizes he loves the dog and that the dog is his only friend. Peter then attempts to leave however, Jerry started to tickle and persuades him to listen to another story. After few more stories, Jerry becomes out of hand and starts to push, poke, and hit Peter of the bench. Both started to fight for the bench. Moreover, Jerry takes out a knife and tosses it to Peter to be even. Peter refuses to fight him with the knife. However, when Jerry got out of control and charged Peter, Peter got the knife and impaled jerry. Jerry and Peter started to
Linda and Willy’s relationship in the play is characterized by deep love and affection, but Willy does not frequently show the physical manifestations of such feelings. After thirty-five years of marriage, both characters have come to know each other’s subtle quirks and dreams, but Linda’s thorough understanding of Willy cannot be reciprocated. At first glance, she resembles a stereotypical housewife who passively stays home while her husband maintains his role as the breadwinner of the family,
At the beginning of the short drama, “Trifles,” Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s wife, is painted as timid and submissive wife. She willingly submits herself to the responsibilities she has as a wife. As the play unfolds, Mrs. Peter’s submissiveness begins to diminish. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale work together to uncover the murder of Minnie Wright’s husband. When the women find the evidence, they refuse to share it with the men. Mrs. Peter’s character transforms into a more confident individual over the course of the play.
The intensity in our story develops when our narrator discovers she really doesn’t love Peter. It’s when he asks her if she fancy’s the waiter (151), when she understands, at that moment she does not love him. Here is when she falls out of love in Sarajevo. It is because our narrator has a certain abusive struggle from Peter, that she seems to change her mind about him in such an instance. But through out the story she doesn’t seem to mind the way he mentally abuses her, how he’s always putting her down, and she doesn’t seem to understand that he still thinks of his wife but is practically with her for the fact she’s a good “LAY”. Her constant thought of Mrs. Piper, Peter’s wife, although she never physically appears in the story, she seems to always be present in her and his mind, making it hard for her to be fully with her lover (Peter) and in this way further extend her fantasious love relationship. She seems to be in denial about what truly is going on, and how she wants to make this work, when in deed she’s only in it for the grade, but she doesn’t want to
Their responses pulled the viewer in to sympathize with Peter and his situation of a stranger hanging around their home and endangering his family. The writer shared information that was puzzling to the viewer. The viewer would not be able to put together the coping mechanisms Peter was able to develop, until he was able to relive the eventful night of the
In the beginning of the play Peter and Anne were not good friends. During time they started enjoying each others company. They would go to each others rooms and talk for hours, sometimes even till bed. Mrs. Vann Dann didn’t like that they were spending so much time together, she thought they were more than friends. Soon they had feelings for each other in a more than friend way, Mrs. Van Daan learned her suspicions were right. Anne felt like Peter was the only person she could really talk to, and at the beginning he was the last person she’d ever talk to and have a full conversation with.
Peter is quiet and a shy boy. He has many duties chopping wood, fetching vegetables and potatoes from downstairs, and looking out for his cat. Anne thought he was boring and awkward. She later thought different and in up falling in love with him after she found him as a decent boy.
Towards the beginning of the play, Peter and Anne have a teasing and kind of playful relationship. They don’t totally like each other, but they’re also very different. Anne is closer to her father than anyone else, but she doesn’t really enjoy her mother. Anne and Margot are fairly close, but Anne seems pretty jealous of Margot and her looks. Mrs. and Mr. Van Daan seem kind of rude to her.
While staying in the annex Anne has made a new friendship with Peter (Hackett and Goodrich). Them becoming friends made living in the annex more bearable, for both Anne and Peter. Anne has also improved her relationship with her mother. Their relationship grew by her and her mother trying to understand each other more. Her and her father’s relationship grew more also. Anne would always go to her father for advice or just to make her feel better when her mother or other people living in the annex would make comments about her and how she should be
The play takes place in Truvy’s Beauty Salon, the haven of the women of the town and the house of Truvy Jones. At the start of the play, Annelle, a young, untrained woman seeking a new job at Truvy’s. Although Annelle is not particularly talented at doing hair, Truvy still gives her the job out of sympathy, thinking that she can teach her how to do it. Next, Clairee, one of Truvy’s regular customers and friends enters. As Clairee has never met Annelle she tries to learn more about her to no avail. Annelle then leaves the room, so the women gossip about her, her background, and her character. Then, Shelby, another regular, enters the salon
In addition to the fact that Peter could not enjoy domestic happiness, he is also unable to form lasting, loving relationships with any human being. This could be explained by Peter’s heartlessness that is attached to forgetfulness and narcissism. Firstly, his narcissism lies in the fact that he does not truly care about anyone except himself. Consequently, Peter “never noticed” how short Wendy’s dress become “at the end of the first year” because “he had so much about himself” and even when he came again after many years he at first didn’t notice “a difference, for he was thinking chiefly of himself”. Secondly, it is a known fact that memories have a very strong impact on life in general; they are a powerful source of emotions, also remembering
love with Anne; "Peter loves me not as a lover but as a friend and
It shows the point that at first Anne is very immature and doesn’t realize how alarming her situation actually is. She realizes that this is not a big game of “hide and go seek”, but that there is actually war going on in her situation. Although there is not a specific sentence or two I can pull from this play to prove my point, the play clearly shows Anne slowly maturing through the rest of the play, growing and grasping how dire her situation
Wellington had been murdered, but still Christopher decided to pick up the dog and hold it. After all Christopher loved dogs especially Wellington. During that time, his neighbor Mrs. Shears who owned the dog came out shouting and screaming. Soon the police arrived at the crime scene, the police man touched Christopher. However Christopher was autistic and he did not like being touched, so he assaulted the police officer and was put into jail. His father was soon notified and he reached to the jail very soon.
She discusses puberty and different changes within herself. This topic is the most influential on early teens, unfortunately some are too immature to actually listen to it and understand, but it is still a good lesson from the play. Another lesson is stay true to yourself. In one part Peter says that he will never let anyone know that he is Jewish when the war was over; Anne follows his comment by stating she will never be something she isn’t. Although this part in the play was quick, it was one of the most important. These are only two of the many life lessons within the play, but if one went to see it they will learn so much
Peter’s relationship with his girlfriend is at a stalemate, and he believes she may be