-Title: If you’re Glad, I’ll be Frank

-Subtitle: Tragicomedy in fourteen scenes

-Editorial: Faber Paperbacks

-Year of publication: 1969

-Place of publication: London

Frank: A man who seeks for his wife desperately who is the operator from the TIM. He’s a man who is strong in love with Gladys.

Gladys: The woman operator from TIM. She’s a strange character because the audience never know if it’s really a woman or just a machine.

Employers from the telephonic services: There are 6 of them, Trelawney, Mortimer, Courtenay-Smith, John, Coot and Bligh. They doesn’t know anything from Gladys and makes Frank to convince himself that Gladys don’t exist.

Ivy: The bus conductor who makes Frank to leave the places who he reach to find Gladys.

The plot of this work tells the story of Frank, a man who looks desperately for his wife Gladys. This is when he listens to the voice from the TIM and he recognizes his wife’ voice on it. At this moment, he makes Ivy stop in any place where he can find her, till the moment he reaches the principal office of the telephone service. He asks to all the employers but they didn’t know anything about that Gladys, because the operator of TIM is just a machine. This makes Frank to concern about the truth and he leaves the place. Finally, the first door goes to the room where Gladys work and he seen her crying, but he make her to take back to work.

The place of plot can be London and the time seems to be the late sixties. This makes a hard ambience to the character because he hasn’t had an amply movement for him.

The author uses a colloquial level of language for the intercommunication between the characters and doesn’t use many metaphors or another stylistic resource. Even so, the work in all, it’s a metaphor of the man and the time, and the extreme need that we have to have from it.

This is a strange work. Although in some moments is funny and makes smile, in other makes the audience and the reader think about the principal character and his situation.