Well the end of this play is rather tragic in the fact that jim ends up leaving laura broken hearted and Tom ends wasting away with movies and drinking too much. This seems to represent a generation of people who no longer live for families and social gatherings but rather for the their own enjoyment and fullfillment. Although I can understand someone of that time wanting to escape reality with all that was going on in the world at the time. I did like how the whole play was written as memory and gave the author much more flexibility to set up the alll too perfect symbolism. The memory appraoch also produces a nostalgic effect and makes me think about how my memory works and how I remember certain things when I smell certain smells or hear certain songs. Did the play give you a sense nostalgia when you read it?

-Derrick