Billy Liar - In this play how is Billy presented?

... English Coursework - Billy Liar - In this play how is Billy presented? In this play Billy would appear to be quite a normal teenager. By this I mean that he is very argumentative, badly behaved, cheeky and does not like to work hard. We can see he should have had the benefit from a good education at a grammar school but he wasted it by not working hard, being unresponsive and disrespectful to the teachers and ultimately failing in his exams. Billy has very mixed relations with his family and friends, and we see this change throughout the play. His family is quite dysfunctional and Billy would seem to be the cause of most of the problems within that family. He irritates his father who also seems to dislike him. He treats his mother with contempt, despite the fact that his mother continually supports, encourages and defends him. His grandmother

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