Waiting for Lefty (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Clifford Odets
- First Published: 1935
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Drama
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Murder or homicide, Depression, economic, 1930’s, Anti-Semitism, Work or workers, Environment or environmental health, Labor unions, Strikes or lockouts
- Locales: United States
In Waiting for Lefty, Odets captures fully the folk idiom of the six people on whom his play focuses. Each is a taxicab driver. Each has a story to tell. The six characters come from several walks of life but have one thing in common: They are forced by economic necessity to become cab drivers. Each exemplifies the antagonism that exists between the values of the business community and the human values of the play's protagonists.
In the six vignettes, connected only by the job that the actors have in common, Odets explores such matters as collective bargaining,...
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