In The Zoo Story, Edward Albee shows a meeting between two very different men, Peter and Jerry, sitting on a bench in Central Park. The show depicts people living like caged animals, isolated from each other and refusing to communicate. The show features characters who suffer from the lack of real human relationships, the sense of loneliness resulting from being alienated and isolated from other members of their society. This suffering mainly leads to painful life experiences and ultimately to the death of Jerry, who suffers greatly from alienation. In the play, Jerry tries to break this kind of alienation and connect with another human being and ultimately bond with that other in death. Through Jerry Albee presents the problem of alienation that marks modern life in the mid-20th century. It shows how alienation from oneself, from other people and from the society one lives in is interconnected. In The Zoo Story, Albee makes it clear that Jerry's sense of alienation arises from multiple personal and social reasons, where society as a whole imposes this sense of alienation on its members. To begin with Jerry's personal life, in telling his family's story to Peter, Jerry lives in total isolation from his family in his early life, which adds to his feeling of alienation. Jerry says his mother abandoned them to take the path of adultery. “Also, or rather, to be pointed out about it, good old Mommy abandoned good old Daddy when I was ten and a half; has undertaken an adulterous turn of our southern states” (Albee 28). His mother's separation from his father and his subsequent death between Christmas and New Year not only leaves a large void in Jerry's early life, but also creates the i...... middle of paper ..... .d by Peter. In the play, Jerry tries to achieve communication in the isolated and alienated society in which he lives. He achieves this goal only by ending his life for the sake of establishing contact. With his death, Jerry causes Peter to have a keener awareness of "others". Jerry tries to shake Peter and bring him back from the dead by making him “alive”. This is what Albee tries to reflect in the play where he argues that “All serious art, not just plays, is an attempt to modify and change people's perception of themselves, to bring them into a broader contact with the fact of being alive” (Fuente .1980 interview with Albee). After Jerry's death, Peter is very shaken. The audience is also shaken, as they are represented by Peter in the show. Jerry is a person who takes action, faces his loneliness and alienation, and breaks the conceptual silence of American society..