THEA 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Male Prostitution, Unreliable Narrator
18 Jun 2018
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● Jerry wants someone to talk to and to have a meaningful relationship with a human
being
○ Believes that everyone ignores him except for the landlady’s dog
● Jerry calls Peter back at the end to get his book so that Peter doesn’t get in trouble for
Jerry’s death
● Jerry wants Peter to recognize that he is an animal and then embrace his animal-nature
● Jerry is sad and lonely (parents and aunt are dead, aunt died day of his graduation)
● Setting: a Sunday on a bench in Central Park
● Play starts with jerry saying “I’ve been to the zoo mister”
● Peter has a wife, two daughters, two parakeets and two cats
● Peter isn’t at home with his family because he has communication issues and trouble
with relationships
● Jerry fell in love with his superintendent’s son when he was 15 years old
● Jerry believes that the police are chasing fairies doing anal (male prostitutes)
● Jerry= male prostitute, passive aggressive, sensitive, unreliable narrator, believes he is a
messiah
● The landlady’s dog in Jerry’s building reminds him of Cerberus (3 headed dog that
guards the gates to hell)
● Jerry thinks rooming house is hell
● Black queen, lady always crying, person who is never there, and the Puerto Rican family
are the other people who live in the boarding house with Jerry
● Jerry wants Peter to kill him so that he can experience being an animal
● Jerry and dog story first quote “What I’m going to tell you has something to do with how
sometimes it necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a
short distance correctly; or, maybe i only think it has something to with that”
● Dog attacks jerry when he walks into the building
● Jerry is very passive aggressive, says animals and people are indifferent to him,
everyone ignores him
● Jerry is an unreliable narrator and rather sensitive
● Jerry “hither nor thither” type of language
● Dog stopped paying attention to jerry after being poisoned
● Jerry wants to wake people up to what it means to feel alive (be in conflict)
● Jerry has had the gay sex
● Jerry can’t deal with death
● Jerry thanks Peter for killing him
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Document Summary
Jerry wants someone to talk to and to have a meaningful relationship with a human being. Believes that everyone ignores him except for the landlady"s dog. Jerry calls peter back at the end to get his book so that peter doesn"t get in trouble for. Jerry wants peter to recognize that he is an animal and then embrace his animal-nature. Jerry is sad and lonely (parents and aunt are dead, aunt died day of his graduation) Setting: a sunday on a bench in central park. Play starts with jerry saying i"ve been to the zoo mister . Peter has a wife, two daughters, two parakeets and two cats. Peter isn"t at home with his family because he has communication issues and trouble with relationships. Jerry fell in love with his superintendent"s son when he was 15 years old. Jerry believes that the police are chasing fairies doing anal (male prostitutes)
