Barefoot in the Park (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Neil Simon
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Drama, Comedy
- Subjects: Values, 1960’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, Gender roles, New York City, Marriage, Individuality, City life, Lawyers
- Locales: New York, NY
In Barefoot in the Park, newlyweds Corie and Paul Bratter have completed their six-day honeymoon and are moving into their first apartment. Corie is romantic, impulsive, and enthusiastic, while her husband is a proper, careful, even “stuffy” young attorney who is more concerned with his budding legal career than he is with helping to build their love nest and perpetuating the honeymoon atmosphere. Soon Corie and Paul quarrel, Paul questioning Corie's judgment and Corie questioning Paul's sense of romance and adventure. Complicating their discord is Corie's attempt to enliven...
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