Usually when a person despises another person it is because they can see a little of themselves in that person. This play reminded me of Spinning into Butter in the sense that the main character is never seen on stage. In Spinning into Butter the main character Simon was never shown just like “the old man” is never shown in True West. Yet his absence in his son’s lives is what causes most of the uproar between the two. Austin or Lee does not want to be like their father but are not strong enough to break the generational curse that he has on them. By the end of the play they both seek isolation which is what the desert symbolizes. “Going to the desert means officially abandoning the American Dream and the false hope it represents.”
In the past few plays we have read they all have involved “The American Dream”. I should say they involved “The American Nightmare”. These plays portray the image of everyone trying to achieve the American Dream because it is what is culturally acceptable, but in the end everything turns out all wrong. If I did not get any other message from reading these plays I have definitely learned that “Being you” and living within your means is what will truly make you happy. We cannot worry about trying to please our neighbors because in reality they are trying to please us.
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