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Chapter 39
Themes
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
Back in the present, BZ tells Maria that she, him, Helene, and maybe Larry Kulik should go to Mexico City tonight. Maria complains that she doesn’t want to, but BZ insists that she does.
BZ’s approach to dealing with a world he knows to be corruptive and superficial is different than Maria’s. Whereas Maria rejects society, BZ seems to think that they might as well enjoy themselves, even if know their world is pointless and vapid.
Themes
