Of course, the good times can't last forever.Īnd despite Arthur's perception of "good times," Silitoe does a masterful job of showing us the limitations of the dead end lives of the working class in Great Britain after the war. As I was reading this, I was struck by how much Arthur reminded me of Michael Caine's Alfie. He chooses married women because he knows they will make no demands on him. He spends his evenings at the pub, and is having sex with Brenda, the wife of one of his friends at the factory who works the night shift. It's shortly after the end of World War II Arthur is a worker at a Nottingham factory, still living at home, biding his time until the weekends. "I'm me and nobody else and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they can't know a bloody thing about me."
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