The Potting Shed (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Graham Greene
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Mythic
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: England
- Genres: Drama, Mystery and detective drama
- Subjects: 1950’s, Parents and children, Suicide, England or English people, Christianity, Faith, Miracles, Atheism, Rationalism
- Locales: England
Characters Discussed
James Callifer, an employee of a provincial newspaper in central England. Although he is in his mid- forties, he is immature, self-centered, diffident, and occasionally suicidal. He is seeing a psychiatrist, who is trying to help him cope with feelings that life is meaningless, that he is a failure, that he is incapable of loving another human being, and that he has been rejected by his family for some dark deed that he has suppressed from consciousness. In this highly symbolic play, the protagonist represents modern humanity, which has lost its way because...
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