Comments on Look back in Anger: ACT I

Vidal Gonzlez-Pereira
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In this first act the reader perceives in Jimmy a character with a never-ending anger, inherent to
its personality as he is described in the first lines of the dialog as a disconcerting mixture of sincerity
and cheerful malice. and freebooting cruelty.. Jimmy starts by criticizing his friend Cliff at the
beginning of the act, calling him an ignorant and a peasant, and then he starts attacking his wife Alison
referring to her education You are not a peasant are you?. As the act continues, Jimmy criticizes the
Church of England, more specifically the Bishop of Bromley; the American evangelist movement, and
the American supremacy. He also attacks Alisons upper-class family: his father, his mother and his
brother Nigel as well as Alison herself by calling her sycophantic, phlegmatic and pusillanimous. In
general, he targets his anger towards the upper-class, the British establishment, religion, and American
politics.