Three Viewings

This play was rather similar in monologues with the subject matter. It's understandable that the writer of this play has each character's point of view similar to the other one so that Viewings as a whole would flow well with each other. One similarity that I feel anyone reading the script would notice was the location: Green Mill Luncheonette. I feel that this is put here to act as a connection between each speaker. It's where the two chracters ( Emil and Terri) have lunch, where the couple met, and where Jane gets drunk. I believe this was put in place as the root and stepping stone that set the play off for the rest of the dialogue. 
Another similarity that was obvious to see, in my opinion, was the mentioning of funerals in each monologue. What is even more importan that was the fact the each person experienced losing someone that they loved. It was either someone flying to a funeral or bringing to light the death of a deceased husband, either way, death was sort of used to create a common ground for each character. To take step even further, along with death was the explanation of a love lost. A lost family, an attempted suicide, the death of a helpmeet before a special holiday, and each story having in common the an unexpected event of something important going missing without having the chance to say goodbye. There where more lie three things here that we're similar in each monologue: location, death, and lost love. To sum it all up, it was basically the beginning, the climax, and the end of each character's particular experience that helped to shape what the play was going to be about.