Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Dresden Technical University (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: American Comedies, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: "I am a creature controlled by some cruel fate that had twisted and warped my personality so that at the first sign of personal involvement, I became transformed from human being into the most feared and dangerous beast on earth, the observer-writer," says Neil Simon, calling himself "a monster who finds himself totally involved in situations,...