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In "True West," by Sam Shepard, two brothers find themselves struggling to figure out what they want in their lives. "True West" focuses on the relationship between Austin and Lee, brothers who seem to have very little in common. Austin is a screenwriter on the verge of a breakthrough Hollywood deal, and Lee is a drifter and cat burglar. While they seem to have little in common, the distant brothers find themselves back together in their mother's house in Southern California, just east of Los Angeles. As they are catching up, each begins realize that there are things missing in their individual lives that the other has done in his own life. Lee realizes that Austin has made something of himself, graduating from an Ivy League school, working on screenplays, and "settin' [him]self up for something,'"(26). Austin sees Lee as a free spirit, doing as he pleases and "always on...

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