Why Is Jimmy Porter Angry in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger?

I chose to do this project on anger because for me, it is the most frequent fault I commit. In addition, it is the hardest one for me to avoid, which makes it one of the most distinctive sins to me. Moreover, writing about it gives me a better understanding of what it is. To me, anger is like a test. Imagine that your life and your decisions are like a path that has many other paths leading off of it, and the goal is to stay on the main path. Anger is like a rock or boulder that blocks the path of travel. As a test, will you keep calm and find a way around it and make

His anger toward his own son seems to be why he feels as he does. His son, who was beaten by his father when he was young, knocked his father down as a teenager. Then he ran away from home and has not seen his father since.

His disappointment about his children grow stronger and stronger when he sees them at home everyday and earning nothing to support the family.

anger which ends up hurting other people. Or maybe, he's been through the same thing and

Jimmy Cross knows Martha does not love him that not a bomb cell of his life. However he still clinging, and hoping and fantasizing on the idea of Martha is in love him. Martha is connected to life back home that is wonderful and beautiful. O’Brien writes “He would image romantic camping trips into the mountains in New Hampshire.” (O’Brien). She represents everything soft, tender like poetry. “About her respect for Chaucer and her great affection for Virginia Woolf. She often quoted lines of poetry,” (O’Brien’s). That is, unlike than the super masculine world of war that he is facing now. He is now living hard, harsh and difficult world of war all the time. First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross needs obsession with Martha because that is his brain’s survival mechanism. Martha writes Jimmy Cross about the world she belongs at, gives him fantasies of the world back home to help him survive The Vietnam

Anger, a word you would think would never have a positive outcome does in the book Anthem, by Ayn Rand. Everybody has anger they hold back and they are just like a ticking bomb ready to explode. But anger in this case led to Equality leaving the situation which led him to be happy away from the city. Anger is an emotion and everyone handles it differently and everyone has different

(Jimmy was only five years old ). As a child not raised in a nuclear family, Jimmy was disregarded by his mom and dad which shape his adulthood. Jimmy would only solve his problem by relocating to a new place to fit him, however, all of his attempts only lead his into trouble. At the beginning, Jimmy set most of his time in an orphanage, later in a detention center, and eventually spend a few years  in

Anger is a very strong emotion that occurs with annoyance or displeasure. Maria gets angry at her family,after calming down maria watches some tv and sees on the news of a possible family killed in a car crash and she no longer knows if she will ever see her family again. Anything is possible. “Growing Up” by Gary Soto. Dont take your anger out on the people you love.

betrayal, and violence. His father abandoned him seeking to find a life less confrontational to a

there were times that his anger that he always held inside would erupt. When these

This shows that he didn’t care what others thought and that he was going to do his own thing.

Anger is not a good, thing, and should be kept under control, for causes people to act rashly and clouds their judgment. An example is when Cole tries to explains why he beat Peter Driscal up, he explains that it was the anger that caused him to act out and behave irrationally(Mikalsen 234) This means that Cole did not mean or want to hurt Peter, but his anger clouded his judgement and convinced him to beat up and bash Peter on the sidewalk. This shows that anger causes people to do things they normally wouldn’t even think of doing. Therefore, anger should be held back and taken out somewhere else, otherwise it could hurt people.

Anger runs through people’s veins, it is a tricky thing to avoid. During Macbeth, some characters let anger get the best of them. For example, by the end of the play lady Macbeth kills herself from anger and not being to be able to get what she wants. She knows that she hates Duncan and wants to attack him, but she knows that she can’t do it right so she asks Macbeth if he can do it because she knows that Macbeth can do it but Macbeth says no and she grows angry at him and

for he believed that the only way to work out problems was from the outside and

Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).