Curse of the Starving Class | Sam Shepard and the Dysfunctional American Family: Therapeutic Perspectives
In the following essay excerpt, the authors discuss
a variety of common interfamilial themes in
Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class.
Shepard captures the promise and failures of a
family, the humor, beauty and bleakness that characterize
a group of people trying to live together.
His plays are not solely comments on family desolation,
but on the family spirit that continues to assert
itself to survive.
The Tate family is losing its cohesiveness. It is
‘‘starving’’ for emotional connectedness and a sense
of identity and purpose. The family members barely
operate as a group except for a place to sleep and
eat—and even those most primary and...
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