Overview

Overview The play is set in an imaginary town called Brumley, somewhere in the North of England. Mr. Burling has a selfish attitude towards life, and also an attitude to only care for himself and family, and basically forget everybody else, in fact, this is exactly what he tells a speech on at the celebration of Sheila’s and Gerald’s engagement, “... a man has to look after himself - and his family too, of …

…but it cant really be suspense because it doesn’t ever tell you what he is, because it is the end of the story, and suspense is where you really want to know what it is, but it will tell you in the end. I think suspense at the end of a story is not good, because it puts a bad ending for the story, because you really want to know the end, or something.