Chips with Everything (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Arnold Wesker
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The present
- Setting: England, in a Royal Air Force hut
- Genres: Social realism, Drama
- Subjects: 1960’s, Class conflict, Class consciousness, England or English people, Military life or service, Soldiers
- Locales: England
Characters Discussed
Pip Thompson, the protagonist, the lone upper-middle-class recruit among working-class conscripts. He resists the efforts of the officers to enlist him as one of them. His hatred of the class system was catalyzed one day by an accidental experience in a dirty East End café; its tea- stained menu, written in a beautifully foreign hand, read “Chips With Everything.” Pip is both envied and criticized as a snob by his fellow draftees. Even the officers regard his sympathy with the working class as a perverse form of snobbery. His revulsion to killing is...
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