Love In 'They Fell And Seeing The Thing'

John Cariani’s Almost Maine presents the various forms and stages of love in each of its eleven scenes. Since Almost, Maine is a described as a small town, the names of characters are mentioned in the dialogue multiple times. However, there are only two recurring characters in the play, the couple that appears in the prologue, interlogue, and epilogue. The remaining scenes, while all occurring in the same night, are very loosely connected. Despite, this many of the scenes are connected by the depictions of love they present, or the loss thereof. For example, the scenes entitled “They Fell” and “Seeing the Thing” both deal with a similar subject of love. The two characters in each of the scenes have a long-standing friendship with one another that is put to the …show more content…
The other partner initially resists the sudden change that is placed before them, fearing that a romantic relationship would destroy their friendship or fearing what their peers would say their relationship. Peer pressure would be especially prevalent with the homosexual couple in the scene “They Fell” since the general public had not yet adopted a supportive view of homosexuals until recently. Cariani implies that love has an organic nature that does not confine itself to specific gender roles. Instead love can exist between any two people as shown by the hesitant partner eventually consenting to the newly-found romantic relationship.
Another way that Cariani presents his concept of love deals with the idea that love, particularly love in a marriage, can be lost and found. Cariani constructs a distinct difference between relationships in the honeymoon phase and relationships that are out of the honeymoon