Brighton Beach Memoirs (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Neil Simon
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Comedy
- Time of Work: Autumn, 1937
- Setting: Brighton Beach, a district of Brooklyn, New York
- Genres: Domestic realism, Drama, Comedy
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Adolescence, Teenagers, Sex or sexuality, New York City, World War II, Depression, economic, 1930’s, Inner cities or inner-city life, Jews or Jewish life, War, Sisters, Working class
- Locales: Brighton Beach, NY
Characters Discussed
Eugene Morris Jerome, a fifteen-year-old Jewish boy living in Brooklyn, New York. Eugene is an enthusiastic, energetic, and persistent boy with a passion for baseball, especially his hometown Dodgers. Newly aware of girls, he is impatient for sexual knowledge and lusts after his cousin Nora. He is young enough to take life, his family, and all their problems lightly and clever enough to be very humorous in the process. He is blamed for everything and must continually cover his tracks. Behind his innocent cleverness is the sharp and insightful mind of an...
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