The Writer's Block: U.S. Drag

The Writer's Block: U.S. Drag: As you guys wrote, I was somehow frustrated by this story. I wondered where our frustration came from, and came to guess that there is a difference between the theme which the writer tries to write and our interpretation. When we readers started reading, we believed that this story was a thriller. Although the writer poses us a riddle, she never allows us solve it. As a thriller, the story is incomplete because “There is no Ed”. However, as the writer quotes from Burroughs’s Naked Lunch in the beginning, this play is about “U.S. drag”, the contemporary sickness, in which people indulge in self-consciousness, money, fame, anxiety, sense of helplessness and loneliness. To some extent, I think the writer succeeded in depicting them. Each character is interesting, and the conversations between Angela and Allison are real. However, the development of the story is imperfect. For instance, I felt the scene where the two guys, Christopher and James, and two girls met was unnatural. Also, I didn’t really get the subtle change of Angela’s emotion.