When BZ enters Maria’s bedroom with Seconal, his alienation is apparent. BZ, unable to keep up the façade that he maintains for such a long period of time, does not want to “play anymore” and “swallow[s]” the medication without a second thought (212-213). His inability to keep up this false impression leads him to the most significant alienation of the novel from Hollywood: death. On Maria’s side, though BZ initially assumes that she wants to end the game as well, she thinks otherwise. By continuing the game in a mental asylum, she aspires to live alone with Kate and do “some canning” (210). In other terms, this odd desire that Maria seeks out of life now through Hollywood’s perspective leads her to break her façade entirely. By letting go of this false impression completely, like BZ, she is alienated from “this artificial society”. Her inability to keep up the façade through the entire novel illustrates the loneliness she feels throughout the novel. A feeling in which the protagonist of the story does not know where she
When BZ enters Maria’s bedroom with Seconal, his alienation is apparent. BZ, unable to keep up the façade that he maintains for such a long period of time, does not want to “play anymore” and “swallow[s]” the medication without a second thought (212-213). His inability to keep up this false impression leads him to the most significant alienation of the novel from Hollywood: death. On Maria’s side, though BZ initially assumes that she wants to end the game as well, she thinks otherwise. By continuing the game in a mental asylum, she aspires to live alone with Kate and do “some canning” (210). In other terms, this odd desire that Maria seeks out of life now through Hollywood’s perspective leads her to break her façade entirely. By letting go of this false impression completely, like BZ, she is alienated from “this artificial society”. Her inability to keep up the façade through the entire novel illustrates the loneliness she feels throughout the novel. A feeling in which the protagonist of the story does not know where she