Sure Thing Play Summary

David Ives’ Sure Thing drama is an interesting play which has different way to entertain the readers. I have never read a play which is a little bit confusing at the first time I read it. Seems its every scene is separated by ring bell. However, by reading it more, I could sense comedy and fantasy combined at once. In the following paragraphs, you will see how some characters shaped based on the play.
The first one is “educated”. Both of the characters in this play were educated. It could be proved in this conversation.
Betty: Where was college?
Bill: Harvard.
Studying in Harvard University directly showed that character Bill was educated person. It’s the same with Betty which was also an educated person.
Bill: What’s the book?
Betty: The Sound and the Fury.
Reading literary works in this time meant that the person had personal educated background. As we know that, not many people would care so much about literary works, except for those who were educated.
Second, both of the characters came from high class economical level. Considering the play was appeared in 1993, being a lot in a café could be done by the
In this conversation, seems that Betty had already known Bill very well before. She could talk quite much about Bill’s condition. Betty also mentioned a name called Stephanie in this dialog. It seems that Bill has already known who Stephanie was. It shows that both of them knew this person-Stephanie- so that Betty could mention this name without any question from Bill after that. So, I conclude that they used to be friend before. The last character is that both of them became lovers. In the end section of this drama we can see that both characters became lovers eventually. They did not know before and later becoming lovers. Well, as I explained before, every scene is separate action. They turned back to the conversation constantly until they got the action that they wanted, until they had a happy ending story becoming