Am I Blue, is a one-act play written by a southern woman playwright, Beth Henley. At the age of twenty, Henley wrote this first play; and it may also have been a play that reflected her passage to adulthood. As a play written for her love, Stuart White, this is a comical, yet very serious play because it deals with problems that many teenagers face. In the play, two teenagers, John Polk Richards and Ashbe Williams, meet for the first time at a bar and become very well acquainted with each other by the end of the play, even in spite of their differences in personalities and personal problems. Billy J. Harbin also stated that “the play examines the lives of two lonely teenagers who are deprived of both parental and peer group acceptance” (Harbin 89). Henley’s Am I Blue uses literary elements such as language, setting, symbolism, and character to suggest her general theme that for teenagers, being able to feel accepted by others is a very important factor, especially during times......

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Title: Growing Up As Teenagers
Approximate Word Count: 1926
Approximate Pages: 8 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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