Name : Ihwan NurroziClass : iNIM : A 320080341
The Zoo Story
A. Character and characterization
1. Peter:
Peter is a middle-class publishing executive who lives in ignorance of the world outside his settled life.
2. Jerry:
Jerry is an isolated and disheartened man who lives in a boarding house and is very troubled.
B. Setting:
1. Place: New York's Central Park Zoo.
2. Time: on a sunny afternoon.
C. Plot:
While Peter is reading a book on a bench in Central Park, he is interrupted by Jerry, a total stranger, who announces that he has just been to the zoo. Anxious to return to his reading, Peter reacts with merely vague interest and lights his pipe, but he is immediately made uncomfortable by Jerry’s queries about his marital status,...