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The Dreamer Examines His Pillow by Shanley, John Patrick is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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THE STORY: The first scene of the play is a conversation between two lovers, Tommy and Donna, who broke up some time earlier but who are obviously still attracted to each other. Donna is enraged because Tommy, a would-be artist, is now having an affair with her younger sister, but Tommy, stretched out on his recliner (which, apart from a refrigerator full of beer, comprises the entire furnishings of his spartan apartment), is seemingly unmoved by her harangue. In the second scene Donna visits her father, a once successful artist who stopped painting at the death of his wife, whom he had bullied and betrayed despite his professed love for her. Combative and complex (but also very funny) the father sits and drinks and eventually gives in to his daughter's demand that he force Tommy to marry her or beat him up. Then, in the third and final scene, the father and Tommy confront each other, with results that are sometimes menacing, sometimes antic, with a lively discussion about art and women eventually leading to a sort of tenuous truce—and a grudging recognition of the responsibility that love, in its various guises, imposes. source: http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=

Who reads The Dreamer Examines His Pillow?

Author

Shanley, John Patrick

Publisher

New York, N.Y. : Dramatists Play Service

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822203315

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.8 / 5 (121 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14