Talking the talk

This play is so refreshing from Top Girls the other week. I thought it was clever and interesting to read. Even though I said it was interesting, I did get bored at some parts. The fact that it was written like True West helped a lot. I liked how Mamet wrote the play. It was all about the talk between people, essentially the back and forth. It nice for it to be short since there was only two acts. I also thought it was peculiar that the second act was drastically long, but it was necessary for the climax of the whole play.

The characters were equally interesting because you could clearly tell who were the strong salesmen, the weak salesmen, and the people they resented. Levene just reeked of desperation and I pitied him the most. It was sad to see that he had a great career but then lost it from the bad streak and robbing the office. Moss was fun to read just because he was so good with his wording to back Aaronnow into possibly robbing the bank. Roma was also fun to follow. He was my favorite because of his elaborate sale to Lingk and how he improvised the whole Dr. Ray Morton out of air to make Lingk believe that he was actually doing something important instead of avoiding the whole situation.

The basic messages I got out of this play were the importance of how to talk and success versus failure in the business world. The importance of talking involves how to talk to people to persuade them that they need what the salesman is selling. That essentially determines the success or failure of the salesmen. If they can’t give a good speech or out-wit a person, they won’t be able to make a sale.