Lost_In_Yonkers

Lost In Yonkers The overall criticism of “Lost in Yonkers” is that the characters are rich with many sides and that they provide the plot with enough complexity to make the story work well. I, on the other hand, think that there wasn’t enough to the characters. I think that the story could have used a character that was a stereotype for a specific character trait. At the beginning of this play we meet the tyrannical grandmother, product of the old world, that has been hardened by her life experiences, i.e. losing two of her children. It seems that during the entire story she never deviates from the stereotype we discover her in. I think that it would have added more complexity if the grandmother would have shown some compassion sometime. The woman was known to have money but when her son comes asking for help out of a bad situation becoming worse, she did not offer to give her son the money to help him out of his problem. Not only that, she could have been more sensitive and loaned out the money and have him work off the debt with her, on a certain timetable. But in the whole spirit of the yonkers, think, characters, character, out, money, make, even, work, story, grandmother, whole, wasn’t, stereotype, son, show, play, life, herself, help, grandma’s, enough, depth, complexity, beginning, been, again, added, wouldn’t, worse, world, woman, willing, watch, very, unwilling