In Act II of the boys next door, Barry’s dad comes to visit him but while he is visiting him, Barry’s dad is rude to him and seems to be very impatient with him. I find that to be sad that his own father can’t have patience for his son, and Jack has more patience for these men and he is not even their father. Also Norman finally let’s someone see his keys, that person is Shelia. He seems to be fine with her seeing his keys until Shelia doesn’t want to give them back, she continues to hold them. This causes Norman to freak out, and he becomes desperate to get his keys back. Shelia brings flowers to Norman and he becomes delighted. Lucien then goes to court and wears his spider-man tie like he said he was going to. While he’s in court he doesn’t present himself very well to the judge and doesn’t answer his questions correctly and continues to talk about his tie. During the rest of Act II, Jack decides to leave the boys and relocate to a different place in life. The boys find out and decide to throw Jack a surprise going away party, he asks them very confused why they threw him a party, they then explain to him that he’s going away. At the end of Act II Jack sits down with Arnold and has a serious conversation about his leaving them for good. He explains how he’s going to be a travel agent. Arnold states to Jack that he is going to be very angry if Jack leaves, he says he will hate him. But at the end of the play they end on a good note of understanding. I enjoyed this play it was rather humorous and entertaining. I usually don’t like plays and find them a little boring to read but I was rather shocked when I started reading “The Boys Next Door.”
I'm glad that you enjoyed this play, even though you don't usually find plays boring (why not, by the way?).
ReplyDeleteAlso, I wish that you gave us more in this post than summary. More thoughts, more analysis, more reflection, etc.