The Drawer Boy Play Analysis

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The book The Drawer boy was written by Michael Healy. It is taken place in Toronto, Ontario and describes of a young boy aspiring to be an actor. His next role is to portray life at a farm, a play he would call The Farm Show. He sought out after two men owning a farm. The play begins to unravel strange behaviors of these two farmers, mysterious ways, and how they became to have this farm from a sad situation. The play is universal in a way where it speaks about friendship, overcoming betrayals and hard times. Although this is not a typical scenario friends encounter, friendships around the world can relate to the farmers. Angus having short term memory, Morgan would tell him the story have how they met and how they came to have the farm they have now. The story of how they were friends from when they were children, to not going to college; even though Angus had this great artistic gift, to going off to the war. During the war, the war the two men met women; who were best friends, fell in love and left the war. The dreamt about living in a big house on the farm together. Morgan also told about how the women died and the artistic boy was left with short term memory. This was a story Morgan told Angus every …show more content…

On the other hand of that, a friend may see as a betrayal because they know how they can handle truths. Angus felt betrayed by Morgan due to the fact that Morgan had lied to him many times about their life. After finding out the two women did not actually die in a car crash but left due to the fact that Angus would become mean and cruel to his woman, Angus was crushed. He began to remember, but still, couldn’t understand why he could be like that. With Angus being so upset with his friend for lying about their life, he began to see another side to it. Morgan had stayed by Angus’s side for years and has taken care of him, no matter how hard it got. Angus was so grateful to Morgan for