sentences:  However, over the course of the play Leo and his partner Sam lose their handbag business and the family must come to terms with this.The other characters in the play include a friend, Gus, and his daughter, Libby, a frivolous and self-centered young woman who is newly married to Leo's son Ben; a boarder, and an assortment of other characters.Odets said of "Paradise Lost" that he'd hoped that after people see it, "they're going to be glad they're alive".