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The play is criticised as being a vehicle for Jimmy Porter with other characters peripheral and superfluous. Do you agree?
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Clair Peach English Literature The play is criticised as being a vehicle for Jimmy Porter with other characters peripheral and superfluous. Do you agree? The play 'Look Back In Anger' was published in 1956 and staged to great acclaim. The play focuses on the story of one unusual household, the household of Jimmy Porter, his wife Alison and their housemate Cliff. Further characters are Helena, the friend who comes to stay with them, Alison's father and mother, and Jimmy's friend Mrs Tanner. The characters of Mrs Tanner and Alison's mother do not have any lines or personal presence, yet are developed sufficiently enough to give them a pivotal role in the dynamics of the play. The question asks whether the play is a vehicle for Jimmy, with the other characters being peripheral and superfluous. My response is that far from being so, Jimmy is defined by the other characters, just as any rebel...
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