Essay | Review of the Play Glengarry Glen Ross

Glengarry Glen Ross is a play about an office of real-estate salesmen in Chicago and an amazing day in their lives. It was written by the playwright David Mamet. The first thing that I had noticed about the play, Glengarry Glen Ross is that it is a play about talking. The characters talk in a way which is different than a lot of other plays that I have read. The conversations seems very fast and aggressive, the salesmen are always selling, even in their normal, everyday conversations. Before reading Mamet's original version of the play I had already viewed the film portrayal of the play. After reading it I found the written text to be even better then the on-screen version.

If Glengarry Glen Ross is about two things, it's about talking and desperation; it is a play about salesmen. It kind of...
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