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    Birthday Party - Character Sketches

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    The document provides a character list for the play "The Birthday Party" with brief descriptions of each character: Petey Boles owns the rundown boarding house where the play is set. He is 60 years old and married to Meg. As the play progresses, Petey realizes Goldberg and McCann are more insidious than they appear. Meg Boles helps run the boarding house and is married to Petey. She has a simplistic personality and sexually-tinged relationship with Stanley. Goldberg and McCann are members of an unnamed organization that hires them to take Stanley away. Goldberg appears polite but has an angry, violent streak, while McCann relies on aggression.

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    Birthday Party - Character Sketches

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    The document provides a character list for the play "The Birthday Party" with brief descriptions of each character: Petey Boles owns the rundown boarding house where the play is set. He is 60 years old and married to Meg. As the play progresses, Petey realizes Goldberg and McCann are more insidious than they appear. Meg Boles helps run the boarding house and is married to Petey. She has a simplistic personality and sexually-tinged relationship with Stanley. Goldberg and McCann are members of an unnamed organization that hires them to take Stanley away. Goldberg appears polite but has an angry, violent streak, while McCann relies on aggression.

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    The document provides a character list for the play "The Birthday Party" with brief descriptions of each character: Petey Boles owns the rundown boarding house where the play is set. He is 60 years old and married to Meg. As the play progresses, Petey realizes Goldberg and McCann are more insidious than they appear. Meg Boles helps run the boarding house and is married to Petey. She has a simplistic personality and sexually-tinged relationship with Stanley. Goldberg and McCann are members of an unnamed organization that hires them to take Stanley away. Goldberg appears polite but has an angry, violent streak, while McCann relies on aggression.

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    Birthday Party - Character Sketches

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    The document provides a character list for the play "The Birthday Party" with brief descriptions of each character: Petey Boles owns the rundown boarding house where the play is set. He is 60 years old and married to Meg. As the play progresses, Petey realizes Goldberg and McCann are more insidious than they appear. Meg Boles helps run the boarding house and is married to Petey. She has a simplistic personality and sexually-tinged relationship with Stanley. Goldberg and McCann are members of an unnamed organization that hires them to take Stanley away. Goldberg appears polite but has an angry, violent streak, while McCann relies on aggression.

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    The Birthday Party Character List

    Petey
    Petey Boles is the owner of the rundown boarding house in which the play takes
    place. He is 60 years old and married to Meg. Petey works a deckchair attendant
    at an unspecified seaside resort near his home on the shores of England.

    As the play continues, Petey’s character is revealed to be more astute. He


    realizes that Goldberg and McCann are more insidious than they seem, and
    probably knows of his wife and Stanley's strange relationship. While Petey
    seems to know quite a lot more than he lets on, he ultimately reveals that he will
    do little to compromise the comfortable, delusional existence he shares with
    Meg.
    Meg
    Meg Boles is a kind woman who helps run the boarding-house. She is sixty
    years old and married to Petey in a seemingly childless marriage. Absentminded
    and simplistic, Meg often asks repetitive questions and constantly requires
    attention. While she does carry on a sexually-tinged relationship with Stanley,
    Meg lives a rather humdrum life that allows her to maintain certain delusions
    about her attractiveness and popularity, delusions which she works hard to
    protect even as the play goes to darker places.
    Goldberg
    Nat Goldberg, also called “Simey” and “Benny,” is a Jewish gentleman who
    works for an unnamed "organization" that has employed him to take Stanley
    away from the boarding-house. He is defined by his outwardly polite and suave
    demeanor, which stands in stark contrast to that of his associate McCann.
    However, he ultimately reveals an angry, violent streak beneath this suave
    demeanor.
    Goldberg's problems seem to be connected to his past - he is nostalgic about
    family, and waxes poetic about the old days. To what extent these delusions
    explain and/or feed his anger and violence are left to the reader's imagination.
    McCann
    Dermot McCann is an Irish member of an unnamed "organization" that has
    hired him to take Stanley away from the boarding-house. Unlike Goldberg, who
    uses words and charm to his advantage, McCann is a paragon of bodily
    aggression. He lacks much social skill, and is something of a simpleton.
    Lulu
    A young woman in her twenties, Lulu is an acquaintance of Meg’s and a visitor
    to the boarding-house. She is childish and flirtatious, and though she seems
    initially interested in Stanley, she is easily attracted to Goldberg's charms. Her
    girlish qualities become ironically unsettling after she is sexually assaulted.
    Stanley
    Stanley Webber is ostensibly the protagonist of the play. He is the only boarder
    at the Boles's boarding-house, and is initially defined by laziness, unkemptness,
    and smug cruelty towards Meg. The many details of his past are never
    confirmed - he might be a musician, might have been famous, etc. - although
    there is a sense that he has sins unatoned for. His aggressive depression
    transitions into a nervous breakdown when Goldberg and McCann arrive, until
    he is nothing but a bumbling idiot in Act III.

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