Look Back in Anger notes

Jimmy Porter, one of the main characters in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger, is explicitly angry throughout the whole play. In the play, many causes of Jimmy’s anger become clear, due to the way he behaves, reacts, and feels. For example, “the snobbish materialism of a middle class whose organization of Society has left no niche for his intelligence, talent, and imagination, and has forced him instead into the humiliating role of shopkeeper” (Huss 20), “the ridiculous, hypocritical, ...