All That Fall (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Beckett
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Absurdist
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: County Dublin, Ireland
- Genres: Drama, Absurdist literature, Fantasy
- Subjects: 1950’s, Blindness or blind persons, Marriage, Death or dying, Existentialism, Diseases, Ireland or Irish people
- Locales: Dublin, Ireland
Characters Discussed
Mrs. Rooney, a woman in her seventies in poor health, weighing more than two hundred pounds. Mrs. Rooney’s trip to meet her husband at the railway station on his birthday is a long, slow journey full of chance meetings with a variety of characters. She represents the human condition, and her dragging feet suggest the difficulty of making one’s way through life. Mrs. Rooney mourns the loss of her child Minnie, and she is philosophical about the brevity of existence in her remarks about the chicken killed on the road. She tries to converse with the...
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