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The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter: character analysis
Stanley Webber Until his enemies Goldberg and McCann appear, Stanley is the only lodger at the Boles’ run-down seaside boarding house. The basis of his relationship to Goldberg and McCann, is never fully revealed, but their coming finally destroys Stanley’s mark of self-control. Near the play’s end, when they have reduced him to insanity, they…
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The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter : detailed summary
Act- I The Birthday Party begins in the living-dining area of an unnamed seaside resort in England. Petey and Meg Boles, the proprietors, chat while she prepares his breakfast and he reads the newspaper. Their talk is about silly and ridiculous things, based on their tenant, Stanley Webber. Petey also tells her of two strangers who might come to rent …
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