Lost In Yonkers Character Analysis

With this letting go leads to the big aspect of change throughout the show. Felix and Oscar adjust their personalities throughout the show, and become less of their archetypes; feminine and masculine. By the end of the play, the characters are no longer so far away. While Felix and Oscar start as opposites, they definitely don’t end up that way. Oscar Madison’s development is much more evident than Felix’s is. He starts the show as a self-centered,sloppy, self-proclaimed “husky man” (Simon, The Odd Couple, 263). By the end of the show, he tells the boys who play poker with him to “watch [their] cigarettes… it’s [his] house, not a pigsty” (Simon, The Odd Couple 301). In contrast, at the start of the play, he was the one dropping cigarettes on …show more content…
In Lost in Yonkers, Grandma Kurnitz is presented as rough towards all her children, treating them as younger than they actually are, but ends up “reluctantly [accepting] the fact that [her children are] growing up” ("Lost in Yonkers."). Grandma starts unwilling treating Bella, her daughter, as an adult, and she exasperatedly listens to Bella while coming to the conclusion to trust in her. Bella also transforms in this way as she grows up more. “Bella has taken the first steps toward maturity, taken on her mother with intelligent and meaningful speeches, and is attempting to move on with her adult life” ("Lost in Yonkers."). She matures to become less like her childish self, and more like independent woman. The shift from being a child to being an adult, and the changes in harshness add to the characters in Lost in Yonkers and exemplify the story. Barefoot in the Park also demonstrates the style of Simon’s comedies to radically change the characters’ personalities. Each character begins with extreme personalities: “[Corrie is] so impulsive. [She] jump[s] into life. Paul is like [Ethel]. He looks first” (Barefoot in the Park, 131). Corrie and Victor never stop, while Paul and Ethel slow down, but even such opposites become less intense. They may start severely different, but then they “[undergo] some rather abrupt changes,... each of the four characters has altered his …show more content…
It cannot be denied that Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison are homosexual as their connotation and their bond do not just hint, but scream at this fact. The only reason many disagree with this fact is because Oscar puts up a very masculine aura, which can be attributed to society telling everyone that to be a man one has to be masculine. Eventually, all can realize that the two of them change who they are through their experience together. No one can be sure who those around them are, and even they do feel that they truly know someone people will continuously progress and change who they