"the Wating Room"

Recently in class we read “ The Waiting Room” by Lisa Loomer. Lisa Loomer uses three different characters, from three different nations, and three different time periods. She discusses all of the pain, and trouble they go through to become beautiful.

In this script Lisa Loomer starts out by informing the audience about the patients problems. All of there problems are due to there struggle to make themselves look beautiful. You could tell that the script was informing people about the dangers of conforming to society’s image of beauty. All of the patients in the waiting room conformed to what they thought was beauty and ended up regretting or suffering from there decision.

Victoria was one of the three Maine characters in this script. She was supposed to represent the 1800 English civilization. She wore a corset and the corset was crushing here organs and her ovaries. Since the corset was crushing her ovaries her hormones where going crazy. She eventually got her ovaries taken out. The sad thing about Victoria is that she did not really change throughout her whole experience. She still wore her corset after her surgery.

Forgiveness was a very depressing and insecure character in this script. At an early age in her life she got her feet bound because that is what her asian society thought was beautiful. Her husband has five wives and has complete control over her life. The feet binding ended up giving her gangrene and she was losing her toes. She was a character that really evolved from the beginning of the script. She did not take her bindings off her feat tell the end of the play because she wanted her husband to think she was beautiful. But at the end you could tell she was starting to think more independently and took her bindings off.

Wanda was by far the most evolved character in the script. She started out as a sassy girl from modern New Jersey who had allot of surgery to make herself look beautiful. She thought that implants and lipo suction would make her more beautiful and that the only way to get married by forty is by looking beautiful. Later on you find that she has breast cancer. She then realizes that she lived her whole life changing her body to look pleasing in a mans eye. She then turns into herself. In the end of the script she states that she will start living life her way.

There were two other characters in this play named Ken and Larry. They both were greedy men who worked for the pharmaceutical business. They were both debating on weather they should use Carson serum to treat cancer. They were going to try and use Carson serum to make business even if it didn’t work. Lisa Loomer was trying to discuss how corrupt the pharmaceutical company is.

The ending to this play was great. It was kind of a cliffhanger. She left you with the idea that Wanda and Forgiveness liberated themselves from society image of beauty. She did not leave you with the since that they will live happily ever after but she left you with a happy and important morale and idea of what was going to happen after her ending.
I think the ending was trying to make you rethink on your personal idea of beauty instead of societies.