Look Back in Anger by John Osborne is divided into three acts and four scenes. The plot revolves around a love triangle involving Jimmy Porter, an aggressive working-class, university-educated young man, his intelligent and indifferent upper-middle-class wife, Alison, and his wife’s closest friend, Helena.

Alison Porter’s loft flat. Alison is seen ironing clothing in a small corner of the room while Cliff and Jimmy read the newspaper.

Jimmy’s violent rants at upper-class complacency and his wife’s dearth of ‘enthusiasm’ dominate the very first part. Jimmy believes that hardship is the only way to feel authentic human feelings and that Alison and other upper-class individuals are thus less ‘alive’ than him. Jimmy, a hot-tempered young guy, attempts to antagonise his wife Alison by making a mockery of her family, and he criticizes Alison’s brother, a parliament member.