SOURCE: ";Buried Child, "; in Sam Shepard, Arthur Kopit, and the Off Broadway Theatre, Twayne Publishers, 1982, pp. 53-61.
In the following essay, Auerbach, an educator and critic, offers an interpretation of Buried Child, stressing the play's discouraging message of lost American promise, yet also noting a sense of hope at the conclusion of the drama.
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