Significance of the play
The play captures the themes of loneliness and love, in a way that makes the reader, or the audience, awe at the depth of creativity of David Henry Hwang. The structure of the play targets the general audience, as it brings out the kind of feelings that someone keeps in the face of rejection and failure to fit in society. Two characters, a man and a woman in middle age, tell their versions of loneliness and their lack of human company. The man confides to the woman that he had to sleep in a waterfall in the previous night ...
