Suggestions as to what is happening here?

-Guys, I am reading an extract from a play. It is confusing me a little. If you have a moment, read it yourself and see what you think. I am trying to figure out three things here and I'd be greatful for some intelligent opinions on this.



The answers I am interested in are three-fold:

Who is this person talking to?

Where is he?

Why is he saying it to them?



Here it is:



Adam:

Two kinds of love, two kinds of women. The woman whose love embraces you, the woman whose love oppresses you. The first, keeps it's distance, and you emerge slowly, confidently. The second burns the air around you until you can't speak or breathe.



You know, when I was born I was born with a great laughter in me. Can you believe that? A great laughter, like a blessing. And some people loved and some people hated it. It was a sort of a challenge, a test against which they measured themselves, and I could never understand the extremes of either their love or their hate.



Have you ever been with a beautiful woman? A truly breath taking beauty and watched the passionate waves of devotion and loathing she attracts? Noticed how people around felt the need to say sly, unpleasant things just to show that they weren't intimidated by her beauty? So it was with my laughter.



And she who had no need to measure herself against anything or anyone because she was endowed with her own loveliness, her own beauty, so she too began to measure herself against that laughter. And why? because I was born with it. She hadn't bestowed it. She couldn't bear that.



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So, again, here are the three things I am curious about:



1) Who is this person talking to?

2) Where is he?

3) Why is he saying it to the other person?



Thanks for your opinions.This is probably one of the most interesting extracts I have ever read because it really makes you read it over and over and think! First I thought that the first woman was a mother because she teaches you, embraces you, gives you confidence and more and then lets you out of her home to go out on your own. Then I read about the second woman and was lost because it could be many different people like an ex or worse. But then I considered the emotional parts of it. One "woman" could be the confidence, maturity, and love and the other could be jealousy, envy and hatred.



Reading on some of it goes with my thoughts and other parts don't. It also sounds like he may be a comedian talking about how he was "born" with this gift of laughter. Then I see more of a religious nature in some parts. I would love to find out where this came from because I am not a play or broadway type person, but this is truly interesting. My husband thinks poetry may have something to do with it too. Thank you for sharing this!sorry hard to answer. i don't know the play. i don't know the writer. and you didn't give any other info. as in the cast list. who this character is speaking to. or anything else. more info, and it'd be easier to answer.