The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Lorraine Hansberry
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Play of ideas
- Time of Work: The early 1960’s
- Setting: Greenwich Village in New York City
- Genres: Domestic realism
- Subjects: African Americans
- Locales: New York, NY
Characters Discussed
Sidney Brustein, a cynical, disillusioned intellectual living in a Greenwich Village apartment with his wife, Iris. An idealist in his youth, Sidney had been involved with all manner of causes and was active on various committees advocating social change. Now in his early thirties, he epitomizes the alienated white intellectual searching for meaning in his life. As the disappointed, disinterested dreamer, Sidney has withdrawn from social and political action to run a failed coffee house and, subsequently, to attempt running a community newspaper. As a...
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