Abstract David Mamet is often considered as the quintessential dramatist of American urban life whose stage is peopled exclusively, and at times questionably, with men. Glengarry Glen Ross is the outstanding epitome of Mamet’s avid engagement with the world of men and their primordial, instinctive thirst for dominance, authority, and the celebration of their masculine prowess. Exploring the turbulent dynamics of male interactions determined and affected by contemporary capitalism, the present study investigates the disturbed depiction of masculinity and male bonding. Mainstream masculinity has been fundamentally linked to power and organized for domination. Historically changing and politically fraught, masculinity is the product of social learning or socialization. Rather than a celebration of the camaraderie of men, as most criticisms of Mamet focus upon, it is argued that the play highlights the failure of such fellowship and the tragic consequences. In Mamet, capitalism and the market economy do to men what in a patriarchal system men do to women: marginalize, dominate, displace. Men, therefore, are losing their cultural centrality, and with that, their capacity for constructive male bonds. Glengarry Glen Ross faithfully captures the sad ethos of American capitalism. The dynamics of dominance and success, the exercise of power, and the hierarchies of control lead to a dysfunctional network of male connections and interactions. Men are expected to develop more instrumentally functioning abilities and roles while maintaining the more expressively dominant roles they used to possess. Caught in between, they are only subject to alienation. This is the paradox of contemporary American men.

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几个坏朋友：大卫·马梅特的《格伦加里·格伦·罗斯》中男性主导的动态和男性结合的失败

摘要 大卫·马梅 (David Mamet) 通常被认为是美国城市生活的典型剧作家，他的舞台上只有男性，有时甚至是有问题的男性。Glengarry Glen Ross 是 Mamet 与男性世界的狂热接触以及他们对支配地位、权威的原始本能渴望以及对男性力量的颂扬的杰出缩影。本研究探索了当代资本主义所决定和影响的男性互动的动荡动态，调查了对男性气质和男性纽带的不安描绘。主流男性气质从根本上与权力联系在一起，并为统治而组织。从历史上看，在政治上充满变化，阳刚之气是社会学习或社会化的产物。而不是庆祝男人的友情，正如大多数对马梅特的批评所关注的那样，有人认为该剧突出了这种友谊的失败和悲惨的后果。在 Mamet 中，资本主义和市场经济对男性所做的就像在父权制度中男性对女性所做的一样：边缘化、支配、取代。因此，男性正在失去他们的文化中心地位，从而失去建立建设性男性纽带的能力。Glengarry Glen Ross 忠实地捕捉到了美国资本主义的悲哀精神。支配和成功的动态、权力的行使以及控制的等级制度导致男性联系和互动的功能失调网络。人们期望男性在保持他们过去拥有的更具表现力的主导角色的同时，发展更多的工具性功能和角色。夹在两者之间，他们只会受到异化。