John Ed Pearce, a columnist for the Courier-Journal of Louisville, referred to the play as a drive by shooting. When I first hear that term I assume he thinks the play is horrific. Given that the play is suppose to represent a paradigm of the American experience, and it does the complete opposite. Comparing the play to the need of ten tons of rotting cabbages also serves as a understanding of its uselessness. Furthermore, we typically hear the term “drive by shooting” in primarily a poor, majority African American neighborhood or community. This severs to show the readers the stereotype the Kentucky Cycle portrays compared to the common misuse of the term “drive by shooting” and it’s stereotype. The Kentucky Cycle narratives misrepresent the people by labeling them as “mean, quaint, violent, brutish, and generally low down and sorry.” There is somewhat an irony behind that again, because the way Pearce used “drive by shooting”, simply because the cultural context it holds. This raised many questions, regarding how another “dumb show of stereotypes” could still guarantee production and as well as an audience all over the country. This then caused the play to close from on Broadway, while losing 2.5 million dollars.