Chicken Soup with Barley (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Arnold Wesker
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1936-1956
- Setting: London’s East End
- Genres: Social realism, Drama, History play
- Subjects: 1950’s, Family or family life, Communism or communists, Protests or demonstrations, 1940’s, 1930’s, England or English people, Jews or Jewish life, London, Idealism, Spanish Civil War, Fascism
- Locales: London, England
Characters Discussed
Sarah Kahn, a small, fiery Jewish woman of European origin, thirty-seven years old at the opening of the play. She lives in the East End of London. She is the wife of Harry, whom she constantly nags, and the mother of Ada and Ronnie. Two features immediately characterize her: her warmhearted but unsentimental dynamism and her total commitment to communism. This commitment is less ideological than intuitive, being based on a sense of community and the need to care, an extension of her strong sense of wider family. It is because of this feeling that she is...
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