The rules of relationship impose all actions taken in the play. Yet, relationships drastically differ depending on what type of relationship they are. Their is a stark difference between hetrosexcual and homosexcual romatic relationships in this world. With in Annie and Peter’s relationship the idea of the nuclear family drives them throughout the show, their relationship and actions are guided by the hope to be seen as the perfect family with a baby. Though they both have issues with aspects of this ideal they don’t talk about their issues, if they break this rule it goes to such a heated point the relationship it almost breaks. In hetrosexcual couples in this world, they despratly need to stay on the path of what a hetrosexcual couple does, …show more content…
Friends are the first people they tell about their life choices, not their families. Friends do activities for each other, check in with each other, and joke around. Annie, Peter, Drea, and Rebecca stick pretty closely to these rules they determine their friendship. Yet their romantic relationships sometimes become obstacles to their friendship. In this play, the couples want to always protect their romantic lovers over their friendship, though sometimes one side of the relationship will call another out it is not in front of the other couple. Due to the fact that each relationship has different societal standards, Annie creates tension in the friendship because she wants the happiest Rebecca and Drea are able to have, yet also wants to stick to the predetermined path. Another element that plays into the couple's specific relationship with each other is race, race over all seems to be something they agree to not talk seriously about. When Drea keeps trying to address race, Annie and Peter get defensive and it really doesn’t seem they ever fully listen and address their issues with races, creating a lot of tension with Drea who wants them to recognize their inability to address