4000 Miles

The motif or pattern/line/image that I see in this play is the image of a wall with reality on one side and the image of a wall on the other side of this wall with three other walls surrounding you. The first example of this image is when Leo and Bec are meeting at Vera's. We see that Leo is not on the same page as Bec and he tries to but he gets angry with Bec that she wants to break up. At this point Leo starts to put up a wall of well it's your fault that your breaking up with me and he is blinded by the reality that Bec went through and focuses on what he went instead of realizing what he did to not only Bec but to his whole family. Which we see the image of Leo putting up four walls to contain himself in is world. Another life event in Leo's life that he see totally denial of is the result of kissing his sister Lily. Leo takes it as not a big deal and she is in therapy for it. And Leo goes to blame something and someone for the problem. Once again we see Leo denying what he has done and hiding in his four walls again while reality is knocking on the other side. We also see an another motif of passive aggressiveness from Vera where she wants to accuse Leo of breaking the faucet but then she likes it's find  but you just could  tell me. I can also see this in Leo as well through out the play. At the end  of the play we see the an image of a guy who was afraid or weirded out by the reality of life and as Leo reads the eulogy and it merges in him and Vera talking about  Ginny and the avacado this to me represent the struggle of the hard reality of life and how you grow through it into a adult. Which takes note of the age where young people face the meaning of reality.