The Savannah Option By Dakin Matthews

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The Savannah Option by Dakin Matthews contains a bittersweet love story of two college professors by the name of Emilia Balistreri and Manny Perry. The two were brought together by the impending death of Sandy, Manny’s wife, who is in the hospital suffering from cancer. To ease his emotional pain, Manny seeks support from Emilia, Sandy’s best friend. Not only did the relationship as friends between Manny and Emilia grow stronger since Sandy was gone, but it also got sexual as well, thus leading to further complications. For many reasons throughout the play, there are many significant reasons that foreshadow why a relationship between Manny and Emilia wouldn't or couldn’t work. ` Due to the fact that Manny is a professor, he’s not used …show more content…

For the simple reason that, in science there is no room for error and precision is the only key to succeed, Emilia had to altered her mindset to compensate for the reality she has to deal with in science. On the other hand, Manny seems to lack interest in precision and he does not see see it as relevant enough to be important. Since Manny is a poet, pin point precision is not his most important concern. This can be problematic if Emilia and Manny were to be in a relationship because they would run into conflicts with each other for just accomplishing a simple task because of their differences in their characteristic, in this case, slicing the zucchini. Moreover, by removing the knife from Manny’s hand while he was still using it, this can make Manny feel incompetent, even though Emilia had no negative intentions. Granted, Emilia didn’t just take Manny’s knife away but she had also taken his pride a well. While this can be not very problematic now, in the future if similar situation occurs again between the two, as Emilia is seemed to be the dominant one, Manny will be left feeling oppressed by Emilis. For men, feeling oppressed or lacked of control in the relationship will drive them to seek for control and domination from outside …show more content…

During an argument regarding the affair, Manny state, “Look, it just happened”(Matthews 54). To Manny, it seems like Emilia is just another sexual partner for him, and he sees nothing for than that in her beside continuing on with their friendship. However, Emilia thinks everything between Manny and her happens for a reason and there has to be a purpose to their companionship, which she thought that Manny was suppose to end up with her. As the two are arguing: Manny. Well, Sandy’s not here, Sandy’s dead. Emilia. She sent you to me. She wanted you to be with

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