The Odd Couple (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Neil Simon
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Comedy
- Time of Work: Mid-1960’s
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: Oscar Madison, Felix Ungar, Speed, Murray, Roy, Vinnie, Gwendolyn Pigeon, Cecily Pigeon
- Genres: Drama, Comedy
- Subjects: 1960’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, New York City, Marriage, Divorce, Single people
- Locales: New York, NY
The Story:
The regular weekly poker game was under way on a hot summer night in the smoke-filled living room of the once well-kept and fashionable Upper West Side New York City apartment of divorced newspaper sports writer Oscar Madison. In the three months since his wife had divorced him, the easygoing, pleasant, but slovenly Oscar had managed to litter the apartment with dirty dishes, discarded clothes, old newspapers, empty bottles, and other trash. Hosting the poker game, Oscar was serving his friends warm drinks (the refrigerator had been broken for two weeks) and green...
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