The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Lorraine Hansberry
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Domestic realism, Drama, Problem play
- Subjects: African Americans, 1960’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Intellectuals, Politics, Racism, Suicide, New York City, Marriage, Betrayal, Prejudices or antipathies, Prostitution or prostitutes, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Elections, Ethics, Corruption, Bohemianism, Newspapers, Reformers
- Locales: New York, NY, Greenwich Village
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window initially appears to be a departure from the playwright's first success, A Raisin in the Sun. Rather than focus on a working-class family in a black ghetto, it examines an ethnically and racially mixed cross section of the liberal intelligentsia in New York's Greenwich Village. Its chief concern, however, remains the existential choices that propel characters toward a mature morality in what Iris, Sidney's wife, terms “a dirty world.” Specifically, it inquires to what extent one is willing to become a saleable commodity, as Walter...
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