What do Jimmy and Alison’s playful
game of bear and squirrel represent at different stages of the play?
The bear and squirrel game
in Look Back in Anger is a symbolic
device that serves an important dramatic purpose. The conjugal life of Jimmy
and Alison is marked by tension .The game in fact makes them forget the
bitterness of their marriage life and give them momentary happiness.
Alison and jimmy's bear
and squirrel game gives them a way to access a simple affection for each other
that they cannot achieve in normal life.
Their relationship is a site of class and social conflict as Alison comes from middle class family and Jimmy from a working class.
When they act like animal they only concern
about food and shelter and sex ,they forget the conflict and feel a simple
version of love for each other .Their relationship is a site of class and social conflict as Alison comes from middle class family and Jimmy from a working class.
As wild animals yet simple as there were no class distinctions and love was pure and innocent .The bear which symbolize jimmy is a gruff wild creature just like bear and often he behaved like bear as restless and isolate ..............................
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