Analysis Of The Zoo Story

“The zoo story” was written in 1958 by Edward Albee. Its plot is about two men, who didn’t know each other and their first encounter at the Central park in New York. Jerry was the one who attempted to begin a conversation, and Peter was distant since he was busy reading his book. At a point, Jerry started insulting Peter, for not protecting his “own” bench in the park and their fight ended with Jerry’s suicide, when he stamped himself with a knife which was previously given to Peter, and Jerry’s unexpected action to wipe of the knife Peter’s fingerprints, while he was dying. The writer of the specific story, Edward Albee and formerly Edward Harvey, was born in Washington in 1928, and then he was given up for adoption to a wealthy family in New York, the Albees, after his biological father left his biological mother. His passion for writing started at a young age, he wrote a play, and novels that had been published to “the New Yorker”. Because of the fact that he had some difficult childhood years, due to his foster family’s distance, he was thrown out of college and his home because of his bad and irresponsible attitude. Edward had a variety of jobs in order to survive, and then he met his first long-term gay lover, William Flanagan. He became Edward’s mentor, they attended many writing exhibitions and Albee gained a lot of experience from them. Later, he was rejected by “the New Yorker”, but when he wrote “the Zoo story” in which he used his distinctive sense of humor