Look Back in Anger (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Osborne
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Protest drama
- Time of Work: 1950’s
- Setting: A city in the English Midlands
- Principal Characters: Jimmy Porter, Alison Porter, Cliff Lewis, Helena Charles, Colonel Redfern
- Genres: Social realism, Drama, Problem play
- Subjects: 1950’s, Values, Suffering, Marriage, Class consciousness, Antiheroes, England or English people, Working class
- Locales: Midlands, England
The Story:
On a Sunday evening in April, Jimmy Porter and Cliff Lewis, both working-class men, and Jimmy’s upper-class wife, Alison, were in the attic flat they shared. While Alison ironed, Jimmy and Cliff read the newspapers. From time to time, Jimmy made acid comments on what he read, ordered the other two to minister to his needs, or pointed out Cliff’s defects, in particular his ignorance and his ineffectuality. Jimmy’s worst venom was reserved for his wife, who he said was as vacuous as her mother and father, and like them, incapable of thought. Cliff defended...
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