Sweet Bird of Youth | Themes

Sex
Throughout Sweet Bird of Youth, the idea of sex and its consequences affects nearly every character’s life. Having failed to make it as an actor, Chance’s ‘‘career’’ consists of working as a gigolo, selling sex and/or companionship to rich, lonely, often older ladies. He met Princess Kosmonopolis while employed at a Palm Beach resort. Because of Chance’s liaisons with many women, he gave his girlfriend, Heavenly Finley, a venereal disease the last time they were together. The innocent Heavenly unknowingly let the disease progress unchecked and...

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