Between Riverside And Crazy Analysis

In the play " Between Riverside and Crazy" by Stephen Adly Guirgis, the story follows Pop, a retired policeman fighting to win his case against the police department after he got shot eight years ago. In "The Nether" by Jennifer Haley, the readers are set in the near future where the Nether, a form of visual reality, replaces the Internet. Both main characters in the plays are shown to always want more than what they are already been giving to them. Also, the relationships between Pop and Oswaldo and Papa and Doyle's depicts that greed is based on superiority of one person over the other.
In the first place, in the play "Between Riverside and Crazy", Pop is motivated by greed for the entirety of the story. In fact, he is driven by the money …show more content…
At the end of the first act, Oswaldo begs Pop to give him his credit card. Furthermore, their entire relationship is based upon Pop giving Oswaldo things, notably a place to live, food and a family-like relationship. Pop is in no obligation to procure him those, he is only his son's friend after all. Pop became a father figure to him and Oswaldo becomes greedy of it and wants more than what is already given to him, resulting with the last scene of the first act where he attacks Pop while drunk and frustrated. Comparatively, in "The Nether", Papa and Doyle's relationship is dependant of Papa showing affection towards Doyle, making him in a position of power over the other. Papa realizes that Doyle is very affectionate towards him and is dedicated to doing what Papa tells him to do, so he uses this in his favor. He avails from Doyle's admiration for his own gain, pushing him to become Iris in the Hideaway. To clarify, Papa express greed by using his power he has over Doyle so he does whatever he wants him to do. Both relationships have an exchange of power in them. Oswaldo is superior than Pop, since he his stronger and healthier than him. The dynamic between them is similar to the one with Papa and Doyle, where Doyle has developed some kind of romantic feeling towards Papa, making him susceptible to fall in Papa's manipulations. Interesting enough, in Pop and Oswaldo's relationship, Pop is the one procuring for Oswaldo, making him normally the one in the position of power, but in this specific situation in act one, they exchanged their positions, comparatively at the one found in "The Nether", where Papa is the one having power for most of the duration of the