Abstract
Teddy is speaking to his father, Max, and his two brothers, Lenny and Joey, after his wife, Ruth, has danced suggestively with Lenny and “necked” with Joey on the couch. What Teddy means is that his father and brothers do not have a perspective on their lives, as he has on those same lives; they cannot see themselves, look at themselves from afar. They cannot do so partly because each has had an occupation on the outside that, in its own way, has been as violent as his life inside the home.
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Cardullo, R.J. (2015). Life in the Foreground. In: A Play Analysis. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-280-6_2
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