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Chapter 7
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
Later on, BZ tells Maria about his successful evening after leaving Anita’s party, and that “everybody got what he came for.” Maria asks BZ if he “get[s] tired of doing favors for people,” and BZ pauses before saying that yes, he does.
When BZ tells Maria that “everybody got what he came for,” he wryly acknowledges his participation in a social system in which people shamelessly use, exploit, and manipulate one another. Though BZ is often at the center of this ugly, exploitive world, he admits that he “get[s] tired of doing favors for people,” which reveals that there’s a sad, disillusioned side to BZ that he hides from the world.
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