The Entertainer

The Entertainer

The Entertainer is the ever-present host, controlling every situation with his boorish laugh that shakes his guests to their soul in fear, giving them the indication that he's in charge and nothing they might do will change that. The Entertainer has an Entertainer Wife, content to gather the women of the party and rule the kitchen along with the 1950s sexism that so many fought to destroy, yet the Entertainer Wife feels like its only right what with a husband like the Entertainer. The Entertainer and his Wife have an Entertainer Son, running around the party collecting dollar tips for fetching people drinks, at the age of 12 not realizing that a buck a drink isn't really much at all but nonetheless touting himself to all the guests he knows, exclaiming "I've been making drinks all night! I think i'm high off Cigar smoke!" both of which are lies he learned from his dear father The Entertainer to make people laugh and want to be merry with him. The Entertainer does not have friends, only guests, but through his Entertaining Ways fails to see such a fact, soaking himself in the cold, wet party guests already drunk with The Entertainer's contribution of free wine and vodka. Only when one abstains from The Entertainer's alcohol does he see where he is, an unremarkable house that has a remarkable television, a remarkable swimming pool, and a vast supply of alcohol, from which the guest turns away from and becomes a Human Being again, leaving The Entertainer's for a world of feeling and impulsive, uncalculated reality.