Summary and Characters
The play is set in The Bronx in 1933; it concerns the impoverished Berger family and their conflicts as the parents scheme to manipulate their children's relationships to their own ends, while their children strive for their own dreams.
- Myron Berger - the father of the family
- Bessie Berger - his wife
- Hennie Berger - their daughter, age 26
- Ralph Berger - their son, age 22
- Uncle Morty - Bessie's brother, a successful businessman
- Jacob - father of Bessie and Morty; a Marxist; he lives with the Bergers
- Moe Axelrod - a friend of the family who eventually boards with the Bergers
- Sam Feinschreiber - an immigrant who courts Hennie
- Schlosser - the janitor in the Bergers' apartment building
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