It was your typical Sunday afternoon in Central Park. Such themes used within the play are isolation, social outcast, and loneliness.

Albee noted the play was his to do with as he wanted. The Zoo Story is play that’s themes can relate to people today.

Albee only gives a brief characterization on who the character is, but does not give you any background information of his life. David Schonfeld Make some flannel pieces for each of the characters in the book. Bleeding on the park bench, Jerry finishes his zoo story by bringing it into the immediate present: "Could I have planned all this. An anti- hero is the main protagonist but lacks qualities of a hero. I probably didn't know how to be a son, either”, states Albee.

His words as well had separated him from the audience and separated the audience from the play. But it's a play with one and a half characters. Edward Albee’s “The Zoo Story” is a one act play that shows what alienation and loneliness can drive a man to do. Although it may seem that Jerry is just some schizophrenic lunatic, that is not the truth at all because his plan throughout the whole circumstance with Peter was to keep his attention long enough to teach Peter some life lessons and in the conclusion of their time together, die like his parents did. Jerry made a conscious choice of wanting to end his life, while Peter, a man that chose to act as the “guinea pig” and stayed and listened to Jerry’s story, made a conscious choice of picking up same knife that killed Jerry. It was one that included his own death. [16] The play’s themes of “fragmentation, alienation, and isolation” have led many critics to classify The Zoo Story as an absurdist drama. Instructor: M. Shane Breaux

The play explores themes of isolation, loneliness, miscommunication as anathematization, social disparity and dehumanization in a materialistic world. She then leaves her father’s home, representing her desire to have her own independence. Christopher Wallenberg wrote of The Zoo Story: "Over the years, he'd [Albee] always had a nagging feeling that something was missing from the piece’s unsettling encounter between two very different men on a Central Park bench ..." Albee said: "The Zoo Story is a good play. I consider it is an experiment because of how the reactions between the two characters Peter and Jerry lead up to an intense and life affecting climax between the two. The first Iheme of The Zoo Story has to do with absurdity and reality. During the beginning of the play, Jerry begins the conversation with Peter and carefully... ...Yanson Filpo