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Brighton Beach MemoirsBlanche says this after she has had a long fight with her sister, Kate. The fight is instigated in part because Blanche's date with Frank Murphy has been canceled, as Frank has had an accident....
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Brighton Beach MemoirsEugene, the main character in the play, values playing baseball and dreaming about his future greatness as baseball player or writer. He devotes himself to chronicling everything that is happening...
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Brighton Beach MemoirsNeil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs is set in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, in 1937. That year sets the drama between two important times in American history: the end of the Great Depression and the...
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Brighton Beach MemoirsIn Neil Simon's play Brighton Beach Memoirs, the pockets of Nora and Laurie's father represent both security and loss of security. Nora relates that when their father was alive, six years prior to...
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Brighton Beach MemoirsBrighton Beach Memoirs is a coming-of-age story, meaning that it shows how the main character makes a transition from childhood to adulthood. Eugene is almost 15-years-old, and he is starting to...