Play Summary - "Waiting for Lefty" by Clifford Odets

that all of the furniture is gone. When Joe tells Edna that the cab company is the best thing out there, Edna replies. "She says his boss is "making suckers" out of the workers, and out of their families. Joe tells her she'll wake the children, but she says she only wants to wake him up. She calls his union "rotten," since they don't tell the workers what their plans are. And again when Edna turns the subject to Joe's boss who, she says, is "creating all these problems that they have."
             The success of "Waiting for Lefty" was also greatly aided by Odets's mastery of dramatic elements and one of the most important of these is a unified and believable story. Odets manages to catapult the action of the strike using a continuous line of action, with each scene leading logically to growing dis
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