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zoo story
Title: zoo story
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 616 | Pages: 2.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
zoo story
Jerry’s Problems
In Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story, Jerry has trouble distinguishing between emotions
of love and anger, because of his unhappy childhood. This is shown repeatedly throughout the
story in both is words and actions. His inability to organize his feelings is what ultimately causes
his own death.
When Jerry tells the story of the dog, he says he first fed the dog hamburgers in order to
gain its trust, and allow …showed first 75 words of 616 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 616 total…feeding of the dog was showing love. If he doesn’t understand the emotions behind his own
actions when dealing with animals, it will be difficult for him to apply them to human interaction.
Jerry has problems connecting to others people, resulting from an unhappy childhood.
Because of his mixed up emotions, he misunderstands the ideas of love and hate. It is this
confusion that ultimately causes his fight with Peter and his own death.
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