Popular Culture Dictates Life: A Review of the Play "Graceland" by Ellen Byron.
The short play, "Graceland" by Ellen Byron, presents two contrasting Elvis Presley fanatics. Bev Davies, as described in the play, is a "strong-willed and opinionated woman but also very generous and open." Notice that Byron already presents the contrasting characteristics of Bev, which may be seen as a foreshadowing of her transformation in the latter part of the play. Rootie, on the other hand, is another Elvis fanatic which is a complete opposite of Bev …
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…Bev's high status in the society did not dictate who will enter the mansion first. Because the play is comic, it gives insight to the influence of pop culture in America in a way the viewers can easily absorb without thinking. And at the end of the play, it is up to the viewers to judge whether the influence of pop culture in America is really that powerful as portrayed in the play or not.
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