When I first began reading the play Sure Thing by David Ives, I thought it was mistyped after having reading the same few lines twice. Then I noticed a few subtle differences in what the characters were saying. Before reading the textbook’s explanation of the story, I tried to make sense of it myself in relation to other forms of plays and movies. For example, in the movie Groundhog Day, the main character is forced to re-live the day each morning when he wakes up. Throughout the movie, he encompasses everything that can go wrong in a single day by attempting to act like different people or do things he had never done before. The main character can do this because there is no threat of legal or personal reprisal as when the next day draws near, he will have a fresh start once again. I drew a parallel between that movie and this text in that each situation only involved the two characters, Betty and Bill. Where, in each scene, a different attempt is taken by Betty and Bill while communicating to one another. Before I thought of the story as multiple “takes†on each scene, I was not sure what to make of what was going on. After reading the play through, one can deduce what the story is about. It is about the two main characters, Betty and Bill who experience problems while in the dating scene. Ives depicts all the ways people mess up when trying to date one another incorporates them into the play. Instead of starting from the beginning with the two characters meeting each time, Ives writes three or four takes per each scene throughout the play. The bell seems to go off or represent every time there is a goof or slip-up, in which case the scene is then re-run with a different spin or approach. Overall, one can view this story as “What if…?†as it depicts what occurs when each of the characters say almost everything imaginable. Reading through the play was somewhat fun because the reader is unaware which character will make the next blunder and how bad it will be. In the end however, the longest portion of conversation occurs without a [Bell.], this signifies that a connection was made between the two characters as they have finally both agreed to go to the movies together.