Family Voices (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Harold Pinter
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: England
- Genres: Drama, Psychological drama, Memory play
- Subjects: Family or family life, Communication, 1980’s, England or English people, Radio or radio broadcasting, Isolation
- Locales: England
Characters Discussed
Voice 1, a man, younger than twenty-one years of age, who has recently moved to the city and away from his biological family. He has become part of a new family, the Withers, in which the relationships are based on heterosexual and homosexual needs and power plays. He recounts, through a series of monologues, the happenings in their house, which appears to be a brothel and from which only he is able to leave. These monologues are filled with so much ambiguity and so many lies and contradictory statements that it is impossible to verify any truth within the...
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