Look Back in Anger (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Osborne
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Protest drama
- Time of Work: 1950’s
- Setting: A city in the English Midlands
- Genres: Social realism, Drama, Problem play
- Subjects: 1950’s, Values, Suffering, Marriage, Class consciousness, Antiheroes, England or English people, Working class
- Locales: Midlands, England
Characters Discussed
Jimmy Porter, a twenty-five-year-old man who lives in Britain’s industrial midlands. An educated, well-read individual, Jimmy works in a factory, tends a sweet-stall he is trying to buy, and issues diatribes about British society, which he feels has denied him opportunity simply because of his working-class background. Jimmy prides himself on his honesty, but he can be cruel, as is seen in his verbal attacks on his wife, Alison, and on his friend Cliff Lewis, who lives with them. Jimmy excuses himself for mistreating Alison by insisting that she is too...
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