Characters
This character is a 40-year-old single mother.
Helen
The casual discrimination faced by Jimmie is shown when the script rarely uses his real name, calling him this instead.
The Boy
The play is set in this industrial city in Northern England.
Manchester
"I hope they bloom. Always before when I've tried to fix up a window box nothin's ever grown in it."
Jo
This object symbolizes Jo's ambivalence about marriage, as she wears it around her neck rather than on her finger.
Ring
This brash car salesman marries Helen but eventually leaves her for another woman.
Peter
The play critiques 1950s society by showing prejudice against race, gender, and this.
Sexuality
A Taste of Honey is a prime example of this post-WWII dramatic genre focusing on working-class life that includes a wide range of themes.
Kitchen-sink play
The world is littered with women I've rejected...
Peter
The happy, upbeat music that accompanies the play and the bleak subjects of the play are an example of what?
Contrast
She is a cynical teenager who leaves school, gets pregnant, and is determined to live a different life from her mother.
Jo
Jo's desire for this is a key theme, symbolized by her wish for "a room of my own."
Independence
Jo asks Jimmy about his ancestors. Where does she think they came from?
Africa.
For one night, actually it was the afternoon, I loved him.
Helen
The play's structure is this, beginning and ending with a mother and daughter alone in a rundown flat.
Cyclical
This kind, gentle art student is evicted for being homosexual and becomes Jo's primary support system.
Geof
Helen's marriage to Peter illustrates this theme about women's limited options.
Dependence on men for money/Marriage as a transaction
Delaney was a teenager from this social class, which she wanted to portray realistically on stage.
The working class/Lower class
Yes, take it all, my soul and everything
The nursery rhymes in the play are examples of this dramatic technique.
allusion
He is a Black sailor who gives Jo a ring and gets her pregnant before leaving.
Jimmy
Jo's pregnancy and Helen's return at the end of the play reinforce this concept of repeating family patterns.
Cycle of poverty
Why was it dangerous for men to have homosexual relationships in the 1950s?
It was illegal.
You're glad enough to have me dancing attendance on you.
Geof
Delaney uses this device, where characters speak directly to the audience.
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