When the characters are upset or in a bad situation they immediately turn to alcohol and cigarettes like when Sess thinks about sexual scenarios between Pamela and Howard and he begins to drink in order to forget (100). The situations of the characters in Drop City are related to Alexanders belief that, “Difficult circumstances lead to addiction” (175). The characters in Drop City do not seem like they are addicted it seems more like they just look for a way being happy. After Pamela and Sess are married they still have some issues. Pamella finds Sess with foil and plastic (117). It seems like Sess is about to do drugs but Pamela tells him that he won’t ever need anything like that again because now she is his wife (117). Also during the Wedding Pris is smoking and drinking Vodka and Pamela recognizes why Pris is doing that. In Rat Park according to psychologists, endorphins also called opiates help a person feel better in bad situations and in Drop City, the sentence, “Her brain was flooded with endorphins” (Boyle 118) indicates that Pamela is finally as happy as she wanted to
When the characters are upset or in a bad situation they immediately turn to alcohol and cigarettes like when Sess thinks about sexual scenarios between Pamela and Howard and he begins to drink in order to forget (100). The situations of the characters in Drop City are related to Alexanders belief that, “Difficult circumstances lead to addiction” (175). The characters in Drop City do not seem like they are addicted it seems more like they just look for a way being happy. After Pamela and Sess are married they still have some issues. Pamella finds Sess with foil and plastic (117). It seems like Sess is about to do drugs but Pamela tells him that he won’t ever need anything like that again because now she is his wife (117). Also during the Wedding Pris is smoking and drinking Vodka and Pamela recognizes why Pris is doing that. In Rat Park according to psychologists, endorphins also called opiates help a person feel better in bad situations and in Drop City, the sentence, “Her brain was flooded with endorphins” (Boyle 118) indicates that Pamela is finally as happy as she wanted to