Michelle's Scuba Lessons and Sure Thing Blog Post

1. Discuss the similarities and differences between the play Scuba Lessons and Sure Thing. Use evidence from the story to support your claims.

Scuba Lessons and Sure Thing are similar in that they both take place in a café, and both include romance as a theme. The connections that are made between the dates are similar in that they both start out awkward and then in the end they both wind up working things out to be together. For Bill and Betty, it was starting over again, and again to get it right to be compatible, for Martin and Rayne they left the coffee house together because of a hate for baseball and for the other ‘awkward’ couple, and for Dan and Kelly, it was a hate relationship that turned into hidden love for each other that was found because of other dates. In a sense the relationship between Bill and Betty at first was similar to that of Martin and Kelly. Kelly was extremely disinterested in Martin like Betty was in Bill, but after a few redo’s sounded by a bell the end of their conversation and relationship was like Dan and Kelly, and how they seemed to have known each other, and have so much in common.

The number of people and conversations between the different couples contained many differences. The main one was that in Scuba Lessons there were four people, two couples, where as Sure Thing was only two people, and one couple. Conversations between Bill and Betty were about books, life, and culture. Kelly and Martins conversation consisted of Martin talking and Kelly pretending to listen. Rayne and Dan’s correlations were about sports and movies, hitting the surface of beginning dating. And the final couple Dan and Kelly had been friends for a while, both liking each other without ever directly stating it, and playing games to get the other to give it up, so there conversation was more of a non verbal understanding, and one that came naturally.


Source: http://sussecollection.blogspot.com/2009/01/love-is-in-air-castle-and-things.html