THE SANDBOX The sandbox by Edward Albee is a play that conveys an underlying message of elderly care, senility and death. The characters of the play each take on a personal outlook and each with a roll in life. The play is hard to understand. Each person has to pull out his or her own meanings. Pointing out the dysfunctional family, Edward Albee begins his non-direct approach to the subject of death and burial. The …showed first 75 words of 362 total…

…showed last 75 words of 362 total…married and the grandma lived with them until she died. The young man in the story represents the angel of death. The young man lets grandma know her time has come to die. Grandma accepts death peacefully. In conclusion as we try to decipher Mr. Albee’s silly way of presenting this play, we still see the symbolism of the characters and props in the play. All are connected with getting old, death and burial.