Meg Stanley System In The Room Essay

Stanley as a failed musician took refuge in a distant boarding house for a year, which its existence on the list becomes an issue to be discussed by Meg. Stanley with an existential fear in the process of retreating from life, found the boarding house as quite safe as the outside world is. In the conversation with Meg, which indicates on the notion of his past and the sense of guilt Stanley declares how he had been ‘carved up’ and now have come so close to his doom by arrival of the intruders to take him away from his safe haven. He further anticipates it by saying Meg that they are coming in a van to shift him in a wheelbarrow. Goldberg and McCann, who represent the System in the play, are the center of the room which brings change upon the
Regardless he was a capable pianist or he was not, they did not want to see him as a pianist. The audience, in fact, did not want to see him in his role and space that he was thought he had deserved it. For Stanley, it is yet not clear who has done that to him, whether the audience in a fixed conspiracy have done so or it was an order by the authority in power. However, his identity is taken away and his space is violated. Thus in lieu of such space and position, he validated his new position in a domestic space of a boarding house where his attendant is a mother-mistress figure, Meg. In a place like womb which is positive and beneficent to Stanley, he develops his space and play his role desirably, but as the plot continues, his space is occupied and his identity faded away. Thus, his credibility and acceptance wanes. Stanley’s notion regarding the concert and the two sinister guests remain unclear until they enter the boarding house as he senses the menace. He tries to disappoint them to stay in house. But the threat comes to surface when the intruders forced him to sit down and they engaged with him in a verbal