The Meaning of Smoke :: Smoke Essays

The Meaning of Smoke   Sometimes people feel that things are better left unsaid. Such is the font in Chris Avellones, smoke, which tells the story of two friends who have a good relationship until one speaks the truth that both had been hiding. The smoke in the essay can be looked at as a veil that is concealing the true feelings of the two characters. The setting, which is in a smoke filled bar, can be looked at as a secret hide away that the two friends go to. It is when Kyle starts to bring what is sincerely going on that the conflict starts.   When the story starts, the two friends are at a bar playing darts and drinking beer. When Kyle start smoking a cigarette it is then that Dave starts to open up and let the audience go that the two friends have not seen each other in a while. He also starts to describe his friend physically paying special attending to his eyes. Throughout the story Kyle is very vague when answering Daves questions about his new relationship. Fi nally he asks his friend if his girl knows about what was going on among the two of them. Dave tries a first to shrug the conversation off but it is at this drive that smoke the cigarette is giving off is starting to beat sense. Smoke curled from his nostrils out onto the table, like some kinda dragon (Avellone, 3). Throughout the entire story the smoke seemed to make Dave feel more comfortable. It seemed as if the presence of the smoke made him telling the story and him even being around Kyle okay. With the smoke curling from his friends nose the reader is able to get a picture that the smoke is starting to clear. It is only when the smoke seems to be clearing in his eyes, revealing both his and Kyles true feelings that he started to get uneasy. At this point he attacks his friend and calls him all kinds of vulgar names. He says that he cannot see much because of the smoke and that at that point, Kyle just faded out into the smoke in Shoops (Avellone, 3). We can see here that he knows he has lost his friend to the smoke, which is a representation of his repressed feelings. From his descriptions of Kyle as well as his annoyance at the relationship he is in, the reader knows that Dave is in love with his friend, but the smoke made it all right because no one could really see what was really going on.