Come Back, Little Sheba (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: William Inge
- First Published: 1950
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The late 1940’s
- Setting: A Midwestern college town
- Genres: Drama, Psychological drama
- Subjects: Dogs, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Marriage, 1940’s, Midwest, Dreams, Alcoholism or alcoholics, College life, Loneliness, Students or student life, Realism, Aging, Chiropractic or chiropractors
- Locales: Midwest (U.S.)
Characters Discussed
Doc Delaney, a chiropractor in a Midwestern city. This outwardly gentle, courteous, and patient man in his early forties seethes inside because of his frustrating life. He felt compelled to drop out of medical school about twenty years earlier and marry Lola because he had made her pregnant. Married to a woman who is his social and intellectual inferior, and disappointed in his ambitions and by the fact that Lola was rendered sterile by the botched delivery of their stillborn first child, Doc became an alcoholic who was nearly homicidal when intoxicated. He...
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