In Herb Gardner’s play, “A Thousand Clowns”, he develops the idea that non-conformists like Murray Burns, like to set themselves apart from common people in both positive and negative ways, but it can cause many problems. As a non-conformist, Murray acts uninterested in following a routine, if he feels that he becomes too used to the routine he will remove himself from it. Murray believes everyone falls into categories of good or bad, he sees things in black and white instead of different shades of gray. In the eyes of the people that know Murray, he is seen as maladjusted, egocentric and childish, often either changing the subject when he does not want to address an issue or making jokes at inappropriate times. Murray, towards the end of the
