Sure Thing David Ives Analysis
Sure Thing
Falling in love is something that most of us strive to do. Each of us longs to find that special someone that we can connect to. Every time someone attempts to make that connection for the first time, it always starts with a conversation. Sometimes it can be hard to get the conversation just right. That is where we begin our story…
The play Sure Thing, by David Ives, is a one act play written in a manner that resets every time the conversation takes a turn for the worst. There are several pieces of dialogue exchanged between the main character, Bill, and a woman, Betty, that he meets at a restaurant. The conversation resets, indicated by a ringing bell, every time it goes stale and Bill tries a different approach. “Characters …show more content…
He can think of multiple ways of how the conversation will go but ultimately he will have to choose what he thinks is best. In the play, it takes a more amusing approach of where every time the man fails at properly initiating the conversation and keep it flowing, a bell rings in the background and the conversation restarts and he gets another chance. They keep doing this repeatedly until he finally says of the right things and she agrees to go to the movies with him. It seems as if it ends with a happily ever after. It seems kind of hard to believe that it ends the way it does. You would think that she will never end up with the …show more content…
Those two people need to realize the faults in one another and be okay with them. No two people are the same. They are to help and uplift one another. A good relationship recognizes flaws and helps the other person overcome them. Maybe this is what David Ives is getting at. If we can overlook these flaws in the beginning, then we can ensure that we can have a sure thing with another and help them to fix their flaws. “For [Ives] is at bottom a hopeful modernist, a staunch believer in the redemptive power of romantic love” (Teachout). This redemptive power can help one another overcome their flaws and help the person become the best they can
Falling in love is something that most of us strive to do. Each of us longs to find that special someone that we can connect to. Every time someone attempts to make that connection for the first time, it always starts with a conversation. Sometimes it can be hard to get the conversation just right. That is where we begin our story…
The play Sure Thing, by David Ives, is a one act play written in a manner that resets every time the conversation takes a turn for the worst. There are several pieces of dialogue exchanged between the main character, Bill, and a woman, Betty, that he meets at a restaurant. The conversation resets, indicated by a ringing bell, every time it goes stale and Bill tries a different approach. “Characters …show more content…
He can think of multiple ways of how the conversation will go but ultimately he will have to choose what he thinks is best. In the play, it takes a more amusing approach of where every time the man fails at properly initiating the conversation and keep it flowing, a bell rings in the background and the conversation restarts and he gets another chance. They keep doing this repeatedly until he finally says of the right things and she agrees to go to the movies with him. It seems as if it ends with a happily ever after. It seems kind of hard to believe that it ends the way it does. You would think that she will never end up with the …show more content…
Those two people need to realize the faults in one another and be okay with them. No two people are the same. They are to help and uplift one another. A good relationship recognizes flaws and helps the other person overcome them. Maybe this is what David Ives is getting at. If we can overlook these flaws in the beginning, then we can ensure that we can have a sure thing with another and help them to fix their flaws. “For [Ives] is at bottom a hopeful modernist, a staunch believer in the redemptive power of romantic love” (Teachout). This redemptive power can help one another overcome their flaws and help the person become the best they can