Dec 23, 2009

The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window | The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window

At a glance:

Author: Lorraine Hansberry
First Published: 1965
Type of Work: Drama
Type of Plot: Protest drama
Time of Work: The 1960’s
Setting: Greenwich Village, New York
Principal Characters: Sidney Brustein, Iris Parodus Brustein, Alton Scales, Mavis Parodus Bryson, David Ragin, Gloria Parodus, Wally O’Hara
Genres: Domestic realism
Subjects: African Americans
Locales: New York, NY

Form and Content

When Mavis declares, in response to an argument about modern drama between Sidney and David, “I just don’t know whatever happened to simple people with simple problems in literature,” one irony is that Lorraine Hansberry’s play itself shows complex people living in a world whose problems are complex. Ironically, much later in the play, even the apparently superficial and conventional Mavis turns out to be complex, concealing depth, feelings, and problems of her own that reveal that her statement arises not from aesthetic naïveté but from a longing for...

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The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window | The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window

At a glance:

Form and Content

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