Red Roses for Me (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Sean O'Casey
- First Published: 1942
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Expressionism
- Time of Work: 1913
- Setting: Dublin, Ireland
- Genres: Drama, Expressionist literature
- Subjects: Freedom, Politics, 1910’s, Catholics or Catholic Church, Ireland or Irish people, Strikes or lockouts, Protestantism or Protestant churches
- Locales: Dublin, Ireland
Characters Discussed
Mrs. Breydon, a woman of the working class, roughly fifty years old, whose face and hands show the marks of hard work and the bitter struggle to maintain dignity and respectability in the lower-middle-class world of Dublin on the eve of World War I. Despite patched clothes and some scars from the effort to make a living and rear her son, Mrs. Breydon is still a woman of spirit and shows some signs of the handsomeness that she once possessed. Her chief concern in life is her son, whom she has reared virtually on her own; where his interests are involved, she...
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