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Good People Play Analysis

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Nonjudgmental, open, honestly, holding doors, going to college, investing and respecting others opinion are all characteristics of what our society defines as “good”. While robbing, cursing, living off pay check to paycheck, and unwilling to change neighborhood is classified as low class, bad, embarrassing, and unworthy. David Lindsay -Abaire, in the play Good People, systemizes the impact of an individual’s choices through identity, missed options in life, and prejudices to his readers in Act II Scene I. Using the setting of South Boston, {commonly known as “Southie”} Abaaire utilizes the vast working class and housing projects to explain these themes. How individuals feel, think and act defines our social class just as much as the clothes …show more content…

Many individuals call themselves lucky while others work hard for what they want to achieve in life. In the play, Abaire utilizes scenarios in which people that are close to each other go down different pathways. Mike is the only one out of the friend group that leaves to go to college and then became a very successful doctor. While talking with Mike, Margie points out that he was lucky and had the good life because he had his father to look out after him. She states that there was no one like that in her life and that is why she is not as successful as she wanted to be. She was the high schooler that got pregnant and didn’t do anything with her life. During this conversation, Mike indicates she missed out on plenty of options that passed her way. Margie didn’t want to be that girl who followed her boyfriend any and everywhere she went, so she resided in Southie. Earlier in the play, Margret also turned down job opportunities not because she needed the money but, because of her thinking that she deserved better. Her misjudgment on what was supposed to occur in her life failed; she uses and manipulates others into feeling pitiful and a need for helping her when she must learn how to want to help herself …show more content…

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