SOURCE: "Edward Albee's Triptych on Abandonment," in Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal, Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring, 1982, pp. 14-33.
In the essay below, Gabbard explores the theme of abandonment in The Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith, and The Sandbox, maintaining that each is a "unique picture of abandonment…all hinged together by the shared and related themes of ambivalence, escape into fantasy, and preoccupation with death. "
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