American Buffalo
What is the main conflict in American Buffalo by David Mamet?
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The conflict explored by Mamet here is the clash between business and friendship between a man's ethics and desire to succeed in a world where so much of the population has subscribed to a shared myth of capitalism. As one character tells his younger friend, "there's business and there's friendship"• two worlds which will be combined and then torn apart by the time the play is finished.