The play opens with the four students—Douglas, Kate, Martin, and Izzy—in Kate’s New York apartment discussing Kerouac and Douglas’s new writings. From the start, Martin thinks Douglas is full of himself. Kate doesn’t like Izzy because Izzy thinks feminism is “women who are so hung up on sex.” It’s established that Kate is rich, living in a 9 bedroom apartment for almost nothing. Douglas is considered important because he uncle was a famous playwright. Meanwhile, Martin went to high school with Kate and is middle-class, thinking that people like Douglas use their riches to be pretentious and get an upper hand. While Martin in complaining, Izzy shows her breasts to him for fun who says she’s going to be famous for the books she writes. Later,
