Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Brian Friel
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Domestic
- Time of Work: The mid-1960’s
- Setting: Ballybeg, County Donegal, Ireland
- Genres: Bildungsroman, Drama, Comedy
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, 1960’s, Memory, Parents and children, Communication, Immigration or emigration, Fathers, Personality, Ireland or Irish people
- Locales: Ireland, Ballybeg, County Donegal, Ireland
Characters Discussed
Gareth (Gar) O’Donnell (Public), who is in his early twenties and is the son of a small shopkeeper in the Ballybeg, a small village in County Donegal, Ireland. On the eve of his departure for Philadelphia, where he will live with his aunt and uncle, Gar is eager to escape the limitations of life in Ireland: the taciturn father who cannot show affection, the girl who married another man, the friends caught in a state of perpetual adolescence, and the job with little present and no future. America represents the proverbial land of opportunity for Gar, but...
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