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of Jerry (his lawyer), he is more fed up that nothing goes right that he hesitates when responding “…it’s not a question of the deposit…will you call Jerry” (Mamet 34). When he is unable to express his feelings on the phone, he takes it out on Carol looking for comfort stating “I am doing you the courtesy. I’m talking straight to you” (Mamet 35). By his actions John “establishe[s] the rules and that is a form of power abuse” (Gándara 177). It is Carol who uses John’s action as a way to attack him

Arthur Miller and David Mamet both rely on many of the same topic elements. They both explore capitalism’s effect on communication. From this similarity, we see that Miller’s "Death of a Salesman" and Mamet’s "Glengarry Glen Ross" argue the same message: capitalism can destroy our ability to function naturally as humans. Instead, we become part of a system in which we must learn to operate under. Death of a Salesman was published in 1949. At this time capitalism was prospering. World War

Glengarry Glen Ross and Flight to Canada: Money and power in American life The play Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet creates a portrait of a small band of individuals with a very similar culture: the culture of real estate. In the play, the real estate agents are engaged in a kind of zero-sum game in which they are all trying to 'move' property in any way they can. They perceive themselves as in a race against time, and have no scruples about lying to clients to achieve their objectives. Legality

Oleanna by David Mamet is a two character play in which the issue of miscommunications and excessive political correctness is explored in the matter of 3 Acts. The play is about student-teacher relationships and sexual harassment. The topic discussed in this play could be considered very sensitive which causes Oleanna to become a controversial text. This play was written in 1990’s not only did it spark a great deal of controversy but also stimulated discussions and arguments. If this text had been

Compare the ways in which Mamet and McCarthy explore ideas of masculinity. Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men (2005) and David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross (1983) similarly portray the way the characters masculinity is constantly being influenced by money, power and age. Mamet's Glengarry post-modern representation of the crisis of masculinity glimpses into the lives of pressure-stricken salesmen when a capitalist system forces them into fighting for their jobs. These conditions place the

“Oleanna" is a play written by David Mamet in the early 1990s, during the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas sexual harassment scandal. This took place precisely in the year 1991 after two years of employment with Anita Hill as an assistant to Clarence Thomas. David Mamet wrote this play in the year 1992 and he wrote it based on the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas incident. Different readers interpret every piece of literature differently. There is no possibility that two readers have the exact understanding

The play Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet really left me with a different impression on play writing and literature in general. The play focuses around the characters of four real estate agents--Shelly Levene, Dave Moss, George Aronow, and Richard Roma--and their boss--John Williamson. The agents compete with each other by any means necessary, including scamming clients in order to secure the sale. Their goal is to make the most sales by the end of a certain time period. The winner receives a brand

the other hand are attracted to the business world and the capital that comes from pure competition and winning, the more the better. This is on display in David Mamet’s play Glengarry Glen Ross. Every vice has a consequence however, as Cisneros and Mamet both prove, when people are motivated in the wrong way, they are doomed to fail. In Cisneros’s story, Cleofilas is drawn to telenovelas which provide images of how life should be. She sees what she believes to be successful women, but the more she

The quote, “The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama” by Thornton Wilder, means that what we see distracts us from the real meaning and drama of the play. In the play, Oleanna, by David Mamet, the visual movement seems important, a piece of the play that it cannot be without, however it is actually inconsequential. The words, what is heard, carries the action, meaning, and drama of Oleanna. The words of this play is convoluted and often mean nothing at all, however

finally able to get more than one completed sentence out, she tells him she does not understand “any of it. Any of it. I’m smiling in class […] What are you talking about? […] I don’t know what it means. […] What does it mean? Who should I listen to” (Mamet 36). After several attempts at trying to have a conversation with him about the class, she still is not better able to interpret the material. She sits in that class quietly, pretending everything is fine, when in reality she is confused and looking