The style in which this play seems to be presented is from within the mind of Bill. He sees a girl at a table in a cafe and decides he is going to go and talk to her. Before he goes to talk to her he decides to run through all the different ways this conversation could possibly go. Every time the soft bell rings he has messed up and the conversation has ended, thus it picks back up from where he started to lead the conversation in the wrong direction and goes from there in the hope to eventually have some sort of connection with Betty. But as I read on I see that this may not be the case, and what may be happening instead is completely different scenarios over and over again, as was mentioned in the first post for this week about it being like the movie ground hogs day. Either way I think that Ives is tying to make a point more than just tell a story. When I read this it makes me think that Ives is poking fun at how petty people really are when it comes to social interaction, and specifically when it involves some form of courtship. For example, we like to just assume things about people or blow them off once they disinterest us. The point where this stood out to me the most is right after the 14th bell rings and we have Betty accusing him of just wanting to take her home with him and sleep with her. She than proceeds to make up some story about how he will neglect her and then tell her about his girlfriend, only for her in the end to say that she wouldn’t care. Now this is a farcical situation, but I think that some people think this way and it definitely may have crossed some women’s mind in a situation like this before. It seems to me that Ives is just trying to make the point that we assume people are completely different than us based on one response. Where as just as easily as they could by happenstance say the correct thing and have you eating out of their hand. What his ultimate point is I can’t say, but it would seem to me that he is trying to get people to look at the way we interact with one another in such a situation, and see how just by the change of one response or even one word we can immediately decide what we think of a person.