True West (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Sam Shepard
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: A suburb forty miles east of Los Angeles
- Genres: Realism, Drama, Mythological literature
- Subjects: 1980’s, Los Angeles, Brothers, Reality, Creative process, Filmmaking or filmmakers, Suburban life, Westerns
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA
Characters Discussed
Austin, a self-deprecating but aspiring screenwriter in his early thirties. Somewhat romantic, he works by candlelight in his vacationing mother’s house, creating a “simple love story” to complete a film deal with producer Saul Kimmer, toward whom he is respectful and sycophantic. Conventionally educated at an Ivy League college, Austin inhabits a neat world constructed of middle-class values of rationality, self-discipline, and hard work. This world is threatened by the arrival of his brother Lee, the object of Austin’s sibling envy and repressed...
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