Author: John Osborne

Title: Look back in Anger

Publishing house: Faber and Faber

Published: 1957

Place: London

Characters:

Jimmy Porter: He is a young and tall boy. He is twenty-five years old. Alison is his

wife. He is an aggressive person. Who does not mind anything. He is a sensible and

funny person.

Alison Porter: She is Jimmy`s wife. She is twenty-five years old. She is tall and thin.

She is Pregnant but she does not tell it to Jimmy. She does what Jimmy wants.

Cliff Lewis: He is twenty-five years old. He is a small person and his bones are big. He

is Jimmy´s friend. He gets on well with Alison. He lives with Alison and Jimmy in the

top-floor flat. He is an excellent person.

Helena Charles: She is twenty-five years old. She is Alison´s friend. She does not get on

well with Jimmy, but, at the end, they are together.

Coronel Redfen: He is sixty years old. He is Alison´s father.

Plot:

The play relates Jimmy´s life. Jimmy hates his daily routine. He is a strict and selfish  

person and he wants everybody does what he says. He mistreats his wife. Alison is

pregnant but she is afraid of saying it to Jimmy because she does not know the way in

which Jimmy will react.

Helena is an Alison´s friend but Helena and Jimmy do not get on well, although at the

end they will live together. Coronel Redfen visits Alison and she decides to live

together with him. Then, Helena decides to live with Jimmy, however, Alison has a

miscarriage and comes back to Jimmy.

Setting:

The play develops at Jimmy and Alison´s home, in the top-floor flat. It has got a bed,

some cupboards, some sofas and a window.

Time:

The play has got three acts. The first act occurs in April, one day in the morning. The

first scene of the second act has take two week after, the second scene of the second act

has take the following day, in the afternoon. The first scene of the third act is developed

for some month and the second scene of the third act is developed minutes more late.

We can see a coherent time.

Literary Devices: Style

The play is written in prose. The author uses a simple language.

Personal Opinion:

I do not like reading this play because it is boring and very long. I do not understand

Jimmy´s attitude. I would be able to understand that a person can feel that nobody

understands her/him, but I will never understand that he or she treats to the people badly

because they have not got the same point of view than her/him.