... town boobs flatter you with bunk about your future (52). In True West both brothers are jealous of the other, so they struggle quite hard to step into the place of the other. As it is stated on the truewestbroadway-site: In truth, the brothers actually envy one another - straight-laced Austin yearns ... , Austin and Lee are trapped. (1) Having summed up the common and different features of the playwrights' concept of art, in the second part of my essay I would like to continue with the comparison of the characters. The heroes are ambiguous enough within one play as well, so I will try to...

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... the post- colonial world. Obi's father, a convert to Christianity at a time when such a thing was unheard of can be seen as a kind of step to where Obi is, and generations of change can be witnessed through the generations of the novel. When Obi is in England he realizes the importance of his ... many ways different from the picture he had carried in his mind during those four years." Salman Rushdie, an Indian post-colonial writer, has written an essay entitled "Imaginary Homelands," in which he talks about the homelands that arise in the memory of those who are no longer home. Obi's N...

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