Author Question: When the play opens, what is the situation Clay and Evalana find themselves in? What will be an ... (Read 18 times)

anjilletteb · **on:** Jul 20, 2018

When the play opens, what is the situation Clay and Evalana find themselves in?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What has just happened to Clay in his last wrestling match?

What will be an ideal response?

Beatricemm · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 20, 2018

Answer to Question 1

In the dead of night, Clay is driving his wife, Evalana, and his son, Jesse, to Mexico, where he hopes to restart his career as a professional wrestler. That they are still in the United States is shown by his twice referring, at the end of the plays first speech, to Mexico as there, not here. Since we later discover that Clay is carrying a gun and that Evalana and Jesse have been living in some other town, apart from him, it seems quite likely that he has kidnapped them.

Answer to Question 2

He was supposed to lose the match (which appears to be his customary situation) to a new young wrestler being groomed as a contender by Clays manager, Darton. But, angered by the real physical pain his opponent was causing him, he let his accumulated frustrations boil over and defeated his opponent, as he says, fair and square. As a result, he has been fired by Darton and is presumably washed up as a wrestler in the United States.