'How Dialogue defines relationships'(the club)
... me an autocratic… he better come up with some evidence’ Laurie responds with sarcasm (pg 10) ‘I wouldn’t know where to begin’. Laurie is always jumping down Teds throat and is always calling him a ‘clown, little cretin and an owner of a meat pie factory (in a derogatory manner)’ Laurie also calls Ted by his last name which in this play means aggressiveness and they are also distancing themselves with the use of the surname (pg 23) ‘Parker……… shut up, Ted, or I’ll thump you’. Laurie gets the news that Ted has got into a lot of trouble with a stripper, which is obviously bad publicity for the club. Laurie uses this to his advantage and he ironically says to Ted (pg 60) ‘They don’t need you any longer, Ted. If they don’t need me they’d sack me too.’ In the Stan Zemanek 2UE Radio Talk Back. Stan has the power because he is in control of the switch and he can switch it on or off whenever he wants and he uses this to his advantage. Whenever the caller starts to make sense he interrupts the caller by changing the subject and talking about nonsense ‘ we have 100,000 round holes can we fit 150,000 round pegs into them’. In the beginning Stan calls the caller a ‘dill’ but when he finds out that the caller is only 17 years old Stan bags the caller because he thinks that just because he is older he is much wiser and he calls the caller even more names like ‘idiot, wretched little soul and misguided person’. When the caller attempts to take control by using economic jargon ‘structural problem. It’s a medium to long tem…’ Stan ...