Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Terrence McNally
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Social satire
- Time of Work: 1971
- Setting: New York City
- Genres: Satire, Drama
- Subjects: Values, 1970’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, New York City, Protests or demonstrations, Antiheroes, Ethics, Bombs, Guerrillas or guerrilla warfare
- Locales: New York, NY
Characters Discussed
Tommy Flowers, a thirty-year-old dropout from St. Petersburg who has become a self-proclaimed urban revolutionary in New York City. Like his idols James Dean and Holden Caulfield, he sees himself as an outsider, defiant in the face of established authority, a confirmed malcontent who makes terrorist raids on an oppressively corrupt society and its stifling conventions. At first, these attacks on conformity are pranks—shoplifting, defaulting on cab fare or the check for a meal, engaging in sex and drugs at any opportunity, and alarming shoppers by...
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