Kevin Wade’s character, Lisa, in Key Exchange is a photographer who enjoys spending her weekend riding bicycles. She is a girl looking for someone to truly love her the way her father loved her mother. However, Lisa is in a complicated open relationship with Philip, an aspiring novelist. Lisa is having a difficult time with her relationship with Philip because she wants more and Philip just wants to keep things the way they are. The climax of this constant argument comes during scene six when Lisa asks Philip to come to dinner with her father and after they exchange their keys to each other’s apartments. Lisa is ready to commit where Philip is doing everything her can to stop it.
Throughout the play, Lisa does everything she can to please Philip in anyway she can. For example, in scene two Lisa picks up lunch for the biking group when Philip complains about the food, Lisa goes to get him a sandwich which makes her go out of her way for the one she cares about. She has even gone as far as making up different guys that she had been with so that Philip wouldn’t feel guilty about seeing other women while still maintaining their open relationship. She is willing to even read all of his writings even if they aren’t finished yet. All of these little things are just a few examples that show just how much Lisa loves him and is willing to do anything for him.
As a child, Lisa was able to witness the true and pure love of her parents. Her mother was diagnosed with cancer and decided that it would be best if she said goodbye to her family before it got worse because she didn’t want her children to see her waste away. She remembers how her father went through hoops to get permits and permission to build a sandbox that was visible from her m...
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...wouldn’t be the man she fell in love with. She may not say it but she truly hopes to find someone that loves her and would do anything to make her dreams come true like her father did for her mother.
Although Lisa had hardships through her life and she has developed a personality that is loving and caring toward others. The Key Exchange proved that a woman could be part of the guys and also be a lady at the same time. She would make a good role model for modern society because she did not conform to the rules that have been around for centuries. She will be willing to do anything for those she loves and is hoping to find a person that is willing to love her as much as she loves them. Lisa grew as a person throughout the play, which made her a more independent and comfortable person in her relationship status.
Works Cited
Wade, Kevin. Key Exchange . 1982. Print.
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...s did not have a lot of options. The two women in the end of the play are shown to be almost puppet like, and controlled by the will of the men around, and do not have a say in the outcome at all. The debate of love over friendship is placed back in a balance when Valentine says that they will all marry on the same day and live in the same place "Our day of marriage shall be yours, one feast, one house, one mutual happiness."
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she left him for a man that showed much potential to give the kind of love
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Jennifer Unger & C. Anderson Johnson, “Explaining Exercise Behavior and Satisfaction with Social Exchange Theory,” Perceptual and Motor Skills 81 (1995): 603-608.