Peter's answer was somehow provocative " And am I the guinea pig for today"?" (40). Jerry sees Peter as a very "sweet man" (47) that "possessed of a truly enviable innocence" (48). Anita Stenz states that the "stage directions" show that Peter "resists communication with others, or at any rate, with Jerry" (449). At the very beginning of the play, one might believe that Peter's character is unchangeable and that he will remain the same person until the end, but the fact is that Peter at the beginning of the play, is not the same one at the end of it as he certainly changed a lot. He was a man that has lived in illusion, but after Jerry's death, his eyes became open on what is going on the real world. Unlike Peter, Jerry is a man in
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He uses repetition throughout the play to show how Jerry needs to communicate with others. At the very beginning of the play Jerry says " I've been to the zoo"(34) and when Peter does not notice him, he begins to repeat the sentence again saying " I said, I've been to the zoo. MISTER, I'VE BEEN TO THE ZOO!"(34). This repetition is a very important technique in The Zoo Story. The repetition in the above sentence is the basic technique that Albee uses to catch the attention of the audience and the reader to know what is the story of the zoo and what happened with Jerry at the zoo. Jerry also repeats the sentence of " I don't have one wife, two daughters, two cats, and two parakeets"(47) to show his anger that he has nothing, he is poor, his "good old mom and good old pop are dead"(48) while he was still young and as a result he became an orphan, and he is living a miserable life. He even can not establish a relationship with a …show more content…
It is ironic that Jerry tells Peter that "you don't have to listen. Nobody is holding you here; remember that. Keep that in your mind"(55) because Jerry do needs Peter to listen to him, to establish a communication with him, and to use him as a means to Ignite his anger. He also repeats that he " 'll just kill the dog"(57) because he is angry from the dog's attitude towards him and how whenever the dog sees him "he'd snarl and then go to get me, to get my legs"957). Becoming angry and unable to communicate with the dog, drove him to try to kill the dog which is very ironic. Jerry becomes more ironic when he tells Peter that Jerry's story is "for reading about"(54). Jerry tells Peter that his life cannot be imagined by Peter as Peter lives in a luxurious way that even does not allow him to face anything that Jerry faces everyday. Albee uses foreshadowing to describe how the people who are alienated and isolated from the world are living. This is represented through Jerry's long speech and talk about his life at the rooming house, and his story with the dog. Zimbardo believes that Jerry's long speech about the dog and the foreshadowing used by Jerry shows the "pseudo-crisis" (120) that is used to explore Albee's absorption with man's inability to establish a relationship with other people and his anger of being isolated from the whole
He uses repetition throughout the play to show how Jerry needs to communicate with others. At the very beginning of the play Jerry says " I've been to the zoo"(34) and when Peter does not notice him, he begins to repeat the sentence again saying " I said, I've been to the zoo. MISTER, I'VE BEEN TO THE ZOO!"(34). This repetition is a very important technique in The Zoo Story. The repetition in the above sentence is the basic technique that Albee uses to catch the attention of the audience and the reader to know what is the story of the zoo and what happened with Jerry at the zoo. Jerry also repeats the sentence of " I don't have one wife, two daughters, two cats, and two parakeets"(47) to show his anger that he has nothing, he is poor, his "good old mom and good old pop are dead"(48) while he was still young and as a result he became an orphan, and he is living a miserable life. He even can not establish a relationship with a …show more content…
It is ironic that Jerry tells Peter that "you don't have to listen. Nobody is holding you here; remember that. Keep that in your mind"(55) because Jerry do needs Peter to listen to him, to establish a communication with him, and to use him as a means to Ignite his anger. He also repeats that he " 'll just kill the dog"(57) because he is angry from the dog's attitude towards him and how whenever the dog sees him "he'd snarl and then go to get me, to get my legs"957). Becoming angry and unable to communicate with the dog, drove him to try to kill the dog which is very ironic. Jerry becomes more ironic when he tells Peter that Jerry's story is "for reading about"(54). Jerry tells Peter that his life cannot be imagined by Peter as Peter lives in a luxurious way that even does not allow him to face anything that Jerry faces everyday. Albee uses foreshadowing to describe how the people who are alienated and isolated from the world are living. This is represented through Jerry's long speech and talk about his life at the rooming house, and his story with the dog. Zimbardo believes that Jerry's long speech about the dog and the foreshadowing used by Jerry shows the "pseudo-crisis" (120) that is used to explore Albee's absorption with man's inability to establish a relationship with other people and his anger of being isolated from the whole