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 is1950s 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.