J. B. | Other Characters
Bildad
Bildad is one of the three comforters who come to reassure J.B. in scene 9, after J. B. has lost everything. Spouting jargon-filled clichés, Bildad explains J.B.'s suffering from a Marxist viewpoint, posing an economic answer to J.B.' s problems. J.B. should not wallow in guilt, he claims, because ‘‘Guilt is a sociological accident.’’
David
Thirteen-years-old at the start of the play, David is the oldest son of J.B. and Sarah. As a young man, David becomes a soldier. He survives the war only to be accidentally...
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