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●CHARACTERS :

Jimmy Porter
Alison Porter
Cliff Lewis
Helena Charles
Colonel Redfern

● Subject :
British class system, marriage, misogyny (hatred towards women)

●Genre : realism

● Setting : A single-room flat, English Midlands, 1950s


●SHORT SUMMARY

Look Back in Anger follows a young husband and wife, Alison and Jimmy Porter, as they attempt to navigate class conflict and deal with a deteriorating marriage in 1950s England. Alison comes from a traditional upper class background. Jimmy comes from a working class background, though he is highly educated. The couple lives with Cliff Lewis, an affable working class man and Jimmy’s longtime friend.

•Act 1:
In Part 1, we are introduced to Jimmy Porter, a provocateur described as ''a disconcerting mixture of sincerity and malice, of tenderness and freebooting cruelty; restless, importunate, full of pride, a combination which alienates the sensitive and insensitive alike.'' He picks on his roommate Cliff, who is affable and a peacemaker, putting him down because he is not educated.

But Jimmy saves his most vitriolic and poisonous comments for his wife Alison. Jimmy taunts her for her upper-middle-class upbringing and mocks her family, trying to get a response out of her. Alison responds with only mild answers and continues ironing.

When Jimmy and Cliff engage in horseplay, Jimmy deliberately pushes Cliff into Alison and she is burned by the iron. Cliff and Alison tell Jimmy he needs to leave. While Jimmy is out of the room, Alison tells Cliff she is pregnant and Jimmy doesn't know. Cliff encourages her to tell him. She speaks to Cliff about their marriage and admits that one of the reasons she married him was because her parents opposed the marriage.

When Alison's friend Helena calls and needs a place to stay, Alison offers their place. Jimmy, who can't stand Helena, angrily lashes out. At the end of his tirade, he cruelly tells Alison, ''If only something — something would happen to you, and wake you out of your beauty sleep! If you could have a child, and it would die. Or let it grow. Let a recognizable human face emerge. . . if only I could watch you face that. I wonder if you might even become a recognizable human being yourself. But I doubt it.''

• Act II
Part 2 takes place two weeks later. Jimmy, Alison, Cliff, and Helena are now living together. It's a tense situation and Helena and Jimmy repeatedly butt heads. Helena convinces Alison that she needs to go back home to her parents. Alison does so while Jimmy is away visiting a friend's mother who is dying.

When Jimmy returns, he and Helena get in a fight. Helena tells him about the baby; he tells her he doesn't care. At the end of the fight, they have sex and Helena takes Alison's place.

•Act III
In Part 3, Alison returns to the old apartment. She lost the baby and is looking extremely unhealthy. After she and Helena talk, Helena leaves the apartment for good.

Jimmy is unsympathetic to Alison until she pleads with him and tells him, ''Don't you see! I'm in the mud at last! I'm groveling! I'm crawling!'' Jimmy, seeing that Alison has experienced the terrible experience he wished upon her, and feeling that she could now understand him better because she knew what it's like to get hurt, comforts her and they reconcile.

●THEMES
In the play, LOOK BACK IN ANGER, we can identify the following themes:
•Class and Education
• Suffering and anger against Complacency
• Alienation and Loneliness
• Hatred and Class Conflict
• Disillusionment and Nostalgia, etc.