Glengarry, Glen Ross Essay

This Study Guide consists of approximately 39 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Glengarry, Glen Ross.

Glengarry, Glen Ross Essay

This Study Guide consists of approximately 39 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Glengarry, Glen Ross.
This section contains 565 words
(approx. 2 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy the Glengarry, Glen Ross Study Guide

In the following excerpt, Kroll offers a mixed review of Glengarry Glen Ross, asserting that in "trying to wed the uncompromising vision of moral primitivism in [his earlier play] American Buffalo with a more accessible, even commercial appeal," Mamet introduces "elements of relatively conventional plotting and farce that occasionally wobble; the resolution of the real-estate-office rip-off doesn't quite ring true." Nevertheless, Kroll declares that "in all other respects Mamet is better than ever."

"It's contacts, Ben, contacts!" says Willy Loman. "Give me the leads!" exhorts Shelly (The Machine) Levene in David Mamet's dazzling new play, Glengarry Glen Ross. Willy dies the death of a salesman; Shelly says, "I was born for a salesman," but then suffers a fate that's a kind of grotesque counterpart to the ignominious end of Willy. Mamet's play is a funny and frightening descent into the Plutonic world of sleazy hucksters who peddle...

(read more)

This section contains 565 words
(approx. 2 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy the Glengarry, Glen Ross Study Guide
Copyrights
Gale
Glengarry, Glen Ross from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.