Cold Storage (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Ronald Ribman
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Existentialism
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: New York City
- Genres: Existential literature, Drama, Dark comedy
- Subjects: Values, 1970’s, Suicide, God, Cancer, Death or dying, Nursing or nurses, Holocaust, Jewish, Hospitals, Jews and Gentiles, Armenia or Armenians
- Locales: New York, NY
Characters Discussed
Joseph Parmigian, a dying cancer patient in his sixties. He is of Armenian background, is married, and owns a fruit and vegetable store in Greenwich Village. He is still hungry for experience and knowledge. An opinionated smart aleck who, with brass, sarcasm, and broad humor, smashes through the reserved shell of Landau, a fellow patient in a New York City hospital. Parmigian, prodding and provoking, demands that Landau reveal his dreams. Parmigian has never felt settled or satisfied with life, and his wacky exuberance is balanced by a bleak vision of the...
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