The bear and squirrel game in look back in anger is a symbolic device that serves an important dramatic purpose . The conjugal life of Jimmy and Alison is marked by tension .The game in fact makes them forget the bitterness of their marriage life and give them momentary happiness .
Alison and jimmy's bear and squirrel game gives them a way to access a simple affection for each other that they can not achieve in normal life .
Their relationship is a site of class and social conflict as Alison comes from middle class family and Jimmy from a working class .
When they act like animal they only concern about food and shelter and sex ,they forget the conflict and feel a simple version of love for each other .
As wild animals yet simple as their were no class distinctions and love was pure and innocent .The bear which symbolize jimmy is a gruff wild creature just like bear and often he behaved like bear as restless and isolate .
And Alison represent softness tender and a tinny creature woolly squirrel .
The bear and squirrel represent jimmy and alison respectively only this game shows them as a romantic couple but in the reality they are like enemy of each other and jimmy always mock about alison family and rude to her .
The bear and squirrel are stuffed toy that Alison and jimmy keep on their dressing table .In the beginning of the play it also shows as an important symbol .
Alison has a bitter experience after her marriage with jimmy .She married jimmy much against her parents .The social class were different between Alison and Jimmy .
Alison's parents didn't agree with their marriage ,as jimmy had no accommodation of his own and he was jobless .After their married they had to stay with Huge one of jimmy's friend.
The conjugal relationship between Alison and Jimmy was so worst that Alison didn't reveal her pregnancy to him .
When Helana suggests to her to reveal her pregnancy to jimmy or must ge out of this mad house ,Alison points out the game of bear and squirrel as an escape from reality .
The game is a kind of escape for Alison and Jimmy from the harsh realities of life and their failure to adjust themselves to each other in their marital life .
In act 1 when clifff goes out ,Jimmy and alison begin to play the game bear and squirrel .Jimmy affectionately calls Alison as beautiful grey eyed squirrels .
Alison pleased so much that she produces the sound of squirrel and calls jimmy a jolly bear a really marvelous bear .
In this moment of happiness she was about to tell her pregnancy to Jimmmy but suddenly cliff enters the room and Alison 's dream shattered .
Meanwhile ,being fed up with the rude behavior of jimmy ,Alison decides to leave him ,picks up the toy squirrel from the drawers ,is about to put it in her suitcase but puts it back in the drawer.
Her picking up the toy shows her feeling of nostalgia and putting it back shows her disillusionment and disappointment .
At the end of the play when alison came back to him there was a romantic affection between them and jimmy takes alison in his arms and console her saying that they again will play bear and squirrel game .
Thus the game is significant for the developing the action of the play . And it takes them out of reality of life to the romantic world ..
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Alison and jimmy's bear and squirrel game gives them a way to access a simple affection for each other that they can not achieve in normal life .
Their relationship is a site of class and social conflict as Alison comes from middle class family and Jimmy from a working class .
When they act like animal they only concern about food and shelter and sex ,they forget the conflict and feel a simple version of love for each other .
As wild animals yet simple as their were no class distinctions and love was pure and innocent .The bear which symbolize jimmy is a gruff wild creature just like bear and often he behaved like bear as restless and isolate .
And Alison represent softness tender and a tinny creature woolly squirrel .
The bear and squirrel represent jimmy and alison respectively only this game shows them as a romantic couple but in the reality they are like enemy of each other and jimmy always mock about alison family and rude to her .
The bear and squirrel are stuffed toy that Alison and jimmy keep on their dressing table .In the beginning of the play it also shows as an important symbol .
Alison has a bitter experience after her marriage with jimmy .She married jimmy much against her parents .The social class were different between Alison and Jimmy .
Alison's parents didn't agree with their marriage ,as jimmy had no accommodation of his own and he was jobless .After their married they had to stay with Huge one of jimmy's friend.
The conjugal relationship between Alison and Jimmy was so worst that Alison didn't reveal her pregnancy to him .
When Helana suggests to her to reveal her pregnancy to jimmy or must ge out of this mad house ,Alison points out the game of bear and squirrel as an escape from reality .
The game is a kind of escape for Alison and Jimmy from the harsh realities of life and their failure to adjust themselves to each other in their marital life .
In act 1 when clifff goes out ,Jimmy and alison begin to play the game bear and squirrel .Jimmy affectionately calls Alison as beautiful grey eyed squirrels .
Alison pleased so much that she produces the sound of squirrel and calls jimmy a jolly bear a really marvelous bear .
In this moment of happiness she was about to tell her pregnancy to Jimmmy but suddenly cliff enters the room and Alison 's dream shattered .
Meanwhile ,being fed up with the rude behavior of jimmy ,Alison decides to leave him ,picks up the toy squirrel from the drawers ,is about to put it in her suitcase but puts it back in the drawer.
Her picking up the toy shows her feeling of nostalgia and putting it back shows her disillusionment and disappointment .
At the end of the play when alison came back to him there was a romantic affection between them and jimmy takes alison in his arms and console her saying that they again will play bear and squirrel game .
Thus the game is significant for the developing the action of the play . And it takes them out of reality of life to the romantic world ..
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