Look Back in Anger is a 1956 play by English playwright John Osborne. The narrative is focused on a love triangle between an angry working-class and university-educated young man, Jimmy Porter, his wealthier wife, Alison Porter, and his wife’s best friend, Helena. It is heavily based on Osborne’s own unhappy marriage and represented a shift in British theatre from fantastical plays meant as simple entertainment to emotionally complex, more realistic stories. The setting is luid-1950s small town England, the Midlands. Jimmy and Alison share their apartment with Cliff Lewis, a young working class man who is best friends with Jimmy. Cliff and Jimmy both come from a working class background, though Jimmy has had more education than Cliff. They are in business together running a sweet-stall. Alison comes from a more prominent family and it is clear from the beginning that Jimmy resents this fact.