- The Change of Manners of American People as Reflected in Edward Albee’s The Sandbox

This research is intended to identify the kinds of change of American manners as reflected in the plays entitled The Sandbox by Edward Albee.

The subject of the study is drama entitled The Sandbox written by Edward Albee in 1960. It consists of six scenes and included in a book entitled Three Plays. The object of the research is focused on the setting and characters and the characterizations of the characters of the drama. This research uses the descriptive qualitative technique to analyze the character and characterization. To analyze the data, the writer employs the intrinsic theory. The changes of manners reflected in the script of play are all regarded as the main data and some data available in the internet to find out information about plot and the author as regarded as the supporting data.
Based on the intrinsic theory, there are many changes of American manners which are reflected by the characters in the plays and they can be summarized as follows, that is: Mommy gives a command to Daddy, Mommy and Daddy to bring Grandma and put her on the sandbox, Grandma insults her daughter, Mommy is sad with the death of Grandma, Mommy lets Grandma lay on the sandbox, Mommy changes her feeling to be optimistic, The Young Man cares for Grandma, and Grandma died in happiness.
ABSTRACT by Delaga, Olga