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 preoccupation with man's failure to establish a relationship with other people and his anger of being isolated from the whole world.
Edward Albee satirizes the American society in a very dramatic way which seems very sad. Jerry tells Peter that the society that he lives in is no more bearable. He can not communicate with people, so he decided to establish a communication with "A DOG"(64). This even does not workout so he …show more content…
The language of the play is "fragmented"(Nilan 20). There are incomplete sentences and a lot of silence, short dialogues said by Peter and long ones said by Jerry especially the one about the dog which shows the imbalance in the division of dialogue between the two characters. The long speeches said by Jerry, especially the one about the dog, shows Jerry's anger from being hated by every one even by the animals. His anger drove him to try to "kill"(57) the dog no matter what happens he will just kill the dog, but his efforts were in vain and he neither succeeded in killing the dog nor establishing a relationship with it. The language of the play depends on repetition as in " I've been to the zoo"(34). Peter's language expresses that he is from the upper class society. The sentence that he said looked somehow vague and ambiguous " I find it hard to believe that people such as that really are"(50) as we do not know if he means Jerry or the landlady and her bad behavior with
Edward Albee satirizes the American society in a very dramatic way which seems very sad. Jerry tells Peter that the society that he lives in is no more bearable. He can not communicate with people, so he decided to establish a communication with "A DOG"(64). This even does not workout so he …show more content…
The language of the play is "fragmented"(Nilan 20). There are incomplete sentences and a lot of silence, short dialogues said by Peter and long ones said by Jerry especially the one about the dog which shows the imbalance in the division of dialogue between the two characters. The long speeches said by Jerry, especially the one about the dog, shows Jerry's anger from being hated by every one even by the animals. His anger drove him to try to "kill"(57) the dog no matter what happens he will just kill the dog, but his efforts were in vain and he neither succeeded in killing the dog nor establishing a relationship with it. The language of the play depends on repetition as in " I've been to the zoo"(34). Peter's language expresses that he is from the upper class society. The sentence that he said looked somehow vague and ambiguous " I find it hard to believe that people such as that really are"(50) as we do not know if he means Jerry or the landlady and her bad behavior with