"Willing"

I think that Sidra's and Walters realtionship will continue on in the same direction that it has been headed . It seems as though Sidra is very unhappy with her life but uses the fact that she is a "minor movie star , once nominated for a major award", to keep her going. No matter how upset she gets, she keeps on brining us back to that. I think that alot of times, people who are in any type of Hollywood business are very unhappy with their lives but hide behind their careers to mask this unhappiness. They date anyone and everyone regardless of whether or not they like them, and things just become kind of a rountine. I think its kind of irnoic how throughout most of the story Sidra can not stand Walter. At times she describes how much she dispises him, but then the second that he is going on a date with someone else, she gets all upset and decides that she would possibly like him again if he would become a "begging man". Everyone is always criticizing men for their behavior in realtionships, how they always sleep around with whoever will sleep with them, but sometimes people fail to see the games that woman play as well. Sidra's actions in this story display this. Even from the beginning when she first meets him, she teetertotters between liking him and not liking him- her mind would change in a matter of minutes. "there is something about him that she liked, something earthy beneath the act." Then a few lines later after he had been talking to her for a while- she says " Now she hoped he wouldnt go on. She had changed her mind a little". Throughout a good portion of the play she talked about how lonley she was, and how boring her little life was in her hotel room at the Days Inn. I think that she just wanted someone to try to fill the void that she felt inside. Many times in the story, the other minor characters mention that they were envious of her because she would "always get the parts in the play that everyone else wanted"- and even knowing this, she is still completely unhappy with her life. Which just goes to show you that even if people on the outside think that your life is great and would love to trade with you, it doesnt always mean that the person who is living it is actually enjoys it. Just because someone else is envioius of your life- doesnt make you any happier.

I think that the dream that Walter has can be compared to the lives that people live today. When he is describing it he says "A man is having a dream about a little country with little people... and then the people realize that they are only creatures in this means dream and they wouldnt exist if he wakes up." They institutionalize this man because they dont want to "not exist" but in the mean time it affects the mans actual life. It can be compared to alot of people today because sometimes they dont really care who they inconvience as long as they are able to live that lives the way that they want too. I also think that Sidra's realtionship with Walter can be parralled with this dream because she doesnt care how her not liking him would affect Walter. As long as she was the center of attention and they were talking about things that were in "her world" then she was content- but she did not want to hear about his job or anything that he is interested in. Also I think its ironic how at the end of the story Sidra kind of detaches from the situation and in the last few lines of the story, she ends up being "gone , gone ,gone out the window, gone, gone" just like the birds that were in his dream.

By being able to witness her reaction to Walter sleeping with someone else, do you think that Sidra truly cared about him and just didnt realize what she had when she had it. Or do you think that she chose to date him because it was someone that would be completely smitten by the idea of dating someone who was in a movie, and would never leave her? Was he just a source of comfort for her, or did she truly love him?