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Chapter 37
Themes
and Colors
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Play It As It Lays, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Meaninglessness
Gender Inequality and Identity
Loss and Recovery
Superficiality
Summary
Analysis
The next time Carter sees Maria, she tells him she’s been working and hanging out with BZ and Helene. Carter tells Maria not to “get into that.”
Carter accuses Maria of self-pity when she stays in but proceeds to criticize the people she socializes with when she goes out. BZ and Helene are close friends of Carter’s, so it’s unclear why he cautions her not to “get into that.” Perhaps Helene and BZ’s transactional marriage is concealing more than BZ’s homosexuality.
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