Look Back in Anger

Ans: Hugh Tanner’s mother helped Jimmy to start a sweet stall.

Ans: Colonel Redfern is the father of Alison. He was the Commander of a Maharaja’s army in an Indian state before the freedom of India.

Ans: Helena Charles is Alison’s true and intimate friend, an actress by profession. She comes to Jimmy’s house to stay with them for some days.

Ans: Jimmy Porter, the husband of Alison, is the protagonist of Look Back in Anger.

Ans: Jimmy mocks Alison's father who, he says, was very happy in imperialist India, but who is leading a life of regret at having lost the benefits he was used to as the commander of Maharajah’s army.

Ans: According to Jimmy Alison’s passion is like a python that devours an animal.

Ans: Jimmy and Alison call each other Squirrel and Bear respectively.

Ans: According to Alison, if a woman tries to dominate her husband, she is sure to be discarded like herself.

Ans: Colonel Redfern is the name of Alison's father.

Ans: Alison and Jimmy are reconciled through their recourse to the ‘bear and squirrel’ game.

Ans: Nigel is the brother of Alison.

Ans: During their separation, Jimmy proves himself a normal man and Alison’s miscarriage brings her sense back. She returns to her husband’s house and they are reconciled

Ans: After her miscarriage, Alison returns to Jimmy and raising her face towards Jimmy, she says that she is in mind groveling and crawling. She collapses at his feet and thus Alison surrenders to Jimmy.

Ans: Jimmy calls Alison and her brother Nigel “sycophantic, phlegmatic and pusillanimous”.

Ans: After Alison’s return to Jimmy, she comments that marriage can last only if both the husband and the wife can adjust to each other.

Ans: Class distinction in the social system is the cause of tension in the marital life of Jimmy and Alison.

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Ans: Alison's father is a retired army officer, the Commander of a Maharaja’s army in an Indian state before the freedom of India.

Ans: Jimmy is angry with Alison’s father for taking the benefits of imperialism and Alison’s mother for her social class.

Ans: Jimmy and Cliff belong to working the working class and Alison belongs to the upper middle class.

Ans: Helena came to Alison's house to stay for a visit.

Ans: Alison hesitates to reveal her pregnancy to Jimmy lest he should suspect her motive.

Ans: The first scene of Look Back in Anger is set in the Jimmy Porter’s one-room flat in an early April evening.

Ans: Sunday is a day when some routine-bound activities are done in Jimmy’s family---reading newspaper, drinking tea, Alison’s ironing the clothes etc. Jimmy is dissatisfied with routine life. So, he hates Sundays.

Ans: Madeline is senior to Jimmy by ten years.

Ans: After the publication of Look Back in Anger, Osborn was commonly called a dramatist of outstanding promise.

Ans: In his early career, John Osborne earned his living by working as a journalist.

Ans: Jimmy is hostile to Helena whom he regards as his natural enemy.

Ans: Look Back in Anger is a landmark in the history of English drama in that it associated the concepts of the “Angry Young Man” and the “Kitchen Sink drama”.

Ans: Helen's comment on Jimmy is that he was born out of his time, and there is no place for people like him any longer either in sex or politics or anything else.

Ans: Jimmy is hostile to Helena and regards her as his natural enemy.

Ans: Kitchen sink drama is a classic type of story. It focuses on the trials and experiences of the urban working class. John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger is a kitchen sink drama.

Ans: Redfern's rank in the army is that of a Colonel.

Ans: The Bears and Squirrels game indicates the conjugal relationship of Jimmy and Alison. It is a kind of escape for them from the harsh and bitter realities of life.

Ans: The profession of Jimmy is to run a sweet stall.

Ans: Sunday papers and radical Weeklies.

Ans: According to Jimmy, what is wrong with the Sunday papers is that they are boring and they make him “feel ignorant.”

Ans: Osborne joined the stage in 1948.

Ans: The first scene of Look Back in Anger is set in the Jimmy Porter’s one-room flat in an early April evening.

Ans: Helena leaved Jimmy to give him back to Alison.

Ans: Jimmy Porter played the trumpet loudly to show his emotion to Alison.

Ans: Jimmy criticizes female sex because they, according to him, bleed men to death while men have nothing to do but to allow them to do so.

Ans: Jimmy criticizes people offering sacrifices to the gods because he believes that people mostly give up only those things which they never really wanted in the first instance or which they were incapable of really wanting.

Ans: Jimmy criticizes female folk because they, according to him, bleed men to death while men have nothing to do but to allow them to do so.

Ans: Look Back in Anger is a landmark in the history of English drama in that it associated the concepts of the “Angry Young Man” and the “Kitchen Sink Drama”.