David Ives Sure Thing Analysis

You Can’t Stop Fate “Sure Thing” by David Ives is a comical but romantic play that draws your attention from the beginning to the end. Betty and Bill are two strangers who are in the same café, as they become acquainted a bell starts them over every time one of them says the wrong thing. Betty at first is very standoffish but as the bell corrects her fate ends up bring two people together. Throughout the play many thing can relate or compare to things in our daily lives. Such as the bell being our controller to our ultimate destiny, people changing to fit their surroundings and there being a right time for everything. The bell in “Sure Thing” acts as a controller of the situation in getting Bill and Betty together. I would compare it to fate and destiny. In life, I believe that God has our ultimate destiny planned out and that along the way the endeavors we go through to get to that ultimate destiny is sort of our choice. I also think that in life we are tempted by the devil to get off the track that God has but that God will always bring us back when we …show more content…
In the beginning when Betty is very stand offish to Bill, I think that relates to a lot of people. I am not one to open up to people right away, it takes me a while to warm up to people. But as the story goes on Bill and Betty completely change who they are to fit the other person perfectly. I also think that, that is something a lot of people do. Like they say, “you are who you surround yourself with.” When you are around people I think you subconsciously change your views and opinions on certain matters to mirror how they view certain situations and to their opinions. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, it could be a good thing when it comes to avoid confrontation. If you were surrounded by hardcore Democrats, you’re not going be preaching you Republican views to them unless you are a person who enjoys

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