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    <title>The Zoo Story Group at eNotes</title>
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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the The Zoo Story Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The truth is this whole story takes place AT the zoo. The key sentence...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/what-meaning-jerry-going-zoo-zoo-story-by-edward-42153</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The truth is this whole story takes place AT the zoo. The key sentence is when Jerry tells Peter that "youll see it on the news" hes refering to the fact that on the news that night there will be a story on how a man(Jerry)was killed at the zoo(by Peter of course)Therefor Jerry knew he was going to be killed, his goal was to get Peter to kill him and he was succesful. If you take note the story setting is a bench at Central Park. In new york...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:15:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How can i get the text? Im a theater student and i want to put this play...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/what-jerry-purpose-zoo-story-88123</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How can i get the text? Im a theater student and i want to put this play in my university. Ill be really thanks if yo could help me]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:21:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Edward Albee's "The Zoo Story" is a darkly humorous examination of two...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/what-jerry-purpose-zoo-story-88123</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Edward Albee's "The Zoo Story" is a darkly humorous examination of two people's existence. The entire drama is an interaction between a middle aged family man and a misplaced, lost, man who is trying to "get to the zoo" through an internal examination of his soul. Jerry is necessary to the play because it is Jerry who plays the Christ-like figure to Peter, who becomes an "apostle" of truth at the play's end.
Jerry is an everyman. He represents...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 9 Jun 2009 09:30:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is Jerry's purpose in Edward Albee's The Zoo Story?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/what-jerry-purpose-zoo-story-88123</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is Jerry's purpose in Edward Albee's The Zoo Story?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:43:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'm performing 'the story of jerry and the dog' for my hsc major...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/im-performing-story-jerry-dog-for-my-hsc-major-81545</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I'm performing 'the story of jerry and the dog' for my hsc major project. How would i go about performing jerry as a female actress?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 1 May 2009 23:46:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[After Jerry has completed his story about the dog, he sets about...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/what-exact-conclusion-zoo-story-55741</link>
        <description><![CDATA[After Jerry has completed his story about the dog, he sets about physically encroaching on his space. He tickles him, pushes him, punches him and tries to get him into a fight over the bench - Peter refuses. Jerry then produces a knife - the first time in the play that we've been aware he possesses one! He throws the knife to the ground, and, again, challenges Peter to fight for his bench, hitting him and slapping him until Peter, finally...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 3 Jan 2009 07:59:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What happens at the end of &quot;The Zoo Story&quot;?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/what-exact-conclusion-zoo-story-55741</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What happens at the end of &quot;The Zoo Story&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 3 Jan 2009 06:15:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[For some reason, which is not clear to me, often when life gets chaotic,...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/what-meaning-jerry-going-zoo-zoo-story-by-edward-42153</link>
        <description><![CDATA[For some reason, which is not clear to me, often when life gets chaotic, it's compared to a zoo; how often have we heard &quot;what a zoo!&quot; in these situations.  My experience of zoos is that they are places of order with all the animals in their cages and paths that take us along the way.  Anyway, I think the zoo in this question is being used in the first sense, to stand for the chaos, class warfare and absurdity of life that Jerry...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:22:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the meaning of Jerry's going to the zoo in &quot;The Zoo...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/what-meaning-jerry-going-zoo-zoo-story-by-edward-42153</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the meaning of Jerry's going to the zoo in &quot;The Zoo Story&quot; by Edward Albee?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:17:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[As good as your answer is the play was only first performed in Berlin...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/how-do-we-tackle-vision-edward-albee-quot-zoo-23319</link>
        <description><![CDATA[As good as your answer is the play was only first performed in Berlin because in New York it was thought of as absurd and no one could understand any of Albee's hidden messages. Therefore it was passed around Europe from friend to friend until finally it was performed in Berlin. Your point of the unhappy view however is spot on in my view. Albee clearly wanted to show that even a rich middle classed man could be brought down to a barbaric man...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:51:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Although it's difficult to point to any one reason, it is clear that...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/why-was-jerry-from-play-zoo-was-unhappy-41735</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Although it's difficult to point to any one reason, it is clear that Jerry represents the alienated individual (a central theme in modern writing, especially existentialist writing) confronting the establishment figure in the person of Peter.  Jerry is unstable; life has not been good to himas typified by the run down neighborhood that he lives in.  Peter, while not rich, represents the well established middle class which would prefer to sit...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:15:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why was Jerry from Albee's &quot;The Zoo Story&quot; unhappy?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/why-was-jerry-from-play-zoo-was-unhappy-41735</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why was Jerry from Albee's &quot;The Zoo Story&quot; unhappy?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:47:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'm not sure what your asking with the absurdity and reality prefix but...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/absurdity-reality-what-significance-props-23849</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I'm not sure what your asking with the absurdity and reality prefix but in terms of The Zoo Story, the book is a representation of Peter's disassociation with reality (i.e. he lives in his perfect world, everything is routine, etc) however you'd be hard pressed to properly analyse that as I think it is a minor symbol. The knife is merely a plot point - a way for Jerry to allow Peter to reveal his primal nature. ]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/absurdity-reality-what-significance-props-23849</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 05:40:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Absurdity and Reality-  what is the significance of the props...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/absurdity-reality-what-significance-props-23849</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Absurdity and Reality-  what is the significance of the props associated with eash charcter: jerry'sknife and peter&quot;s book?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 18:36:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Well, if we were going to assume that each playwright has a specific,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Well, if we were going to assume that each playwright has a specific, unified vision, we could not find it in a single work. Instead, we'd look at the entire body of work, published and unpublished, and would look at unifying themes and techniques.That said, there may be reasons why the play was first produced in Germany. The vision it gives of America is an outsider's view, and not a happy one or unified one. Through the choice to have...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 5 May 2008 10:55:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How do we tackle the vision of the Edward Albee in &quot;The Zoo...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/how-do-we-tackle-vision-edward-albee-quot-zoo-23319</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How do we tackle the vision of the Edward Albee in &quot;The Zoo Story&quot;?  ]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/how-do-we-tackle-vision-edward-albee-quot-zoo-23319</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 5 May 2008 05:14:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Judging by the lines on the final page or two of the play, Jerry hopes...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/what-does-jerry-hope-will-happen-peter-s-life-from-12721</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Judging by the lines on the final page or two of the play, Jerry hopes that Peter will live as an animal, not a vegetable. By that he means, living as a vegetable is to live a life of habit, being dead inside. Living a life as an animal means choosing one's life and fighting for what one has, as the two men fight over the bench in the play. (He also wants Peter to not get caught for killing him.)]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:45:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There are many signs in &quot;The Zoo Story&quot; to signal that death...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/what-hints-play-jerry-s-death-12109</link>
        <description><![CDATA[There are many signs in &quot;The Zoo Story&quot; to signal that death will occur later in it. Whose death, however, is not always as clear. For example, when Peter prepares his pipe for smoking, Jerry asks him if he's not going to get cancer. Later, Jerry reassures Peter he won't be kidnapping his family. This signals the possibility of violence, and if one commits a violent crime, one might die for it. Jerry has empty picture frames. He says...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:42:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The most immediate reason the play is called &quot;The Zoo Story&quot;...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/zoo-story/q-and-a/why-called-zoo-story-12983</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The most immediate reason the play is called &quot;The Zoo Story&quot; is that Jerry announces that he's been to the zoo when he first shows up. His story is a zoo story, and that starts a lot of the play's action in motion.There are other less obvious /more symbolic reasons as well. Jerry lost his parents; many animals in zoos (especially older zoos) are without full family structures, and Jerry fights for territory like an animal. The...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 3 Jan 2008 11:38:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I just saw &quot;Peter and Jerry,&quot; last night (having seen the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I just saw &quot;Peter and Jerry,&quot; last night (having seen the original &quot;Zoo Story&quot; when it was first produced in New York City) many years ago.IMO . . . by rushing into the knife held by Peter, Jerry achieved the almost-orgiastic level of intimacy he craved.  He connected, finally, although in the most bizarre, savage way.  Taking pills or hanging would have been like a tree falling in the forest.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 6 Dec 2007 07:47:18 PST</pubDate>
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