At a glance: - Author: William Gibson - First Published: 1957 -
Type of Work: Play - Type of Plot: Psychological realism - Time
of Work: The 1880’s - Setting: Tuscumbia, Alabama, and Boston,
Massachusetts - Genres: Social realism, Drama, Psychological
drama, Biographical drama - Subjects: Teaching or teachers,
Children, Self-discovery, Parents and children, Nineteenth
century, Blindness or blind persons, Alabama, Deafness or
hearing-impaired persons, Universal language - Locales: United
States, Alabama, Massachusetts, North America, Boston,
Massachusetts, Tuscumbia, Alabama Annie Sullivan, the teacher of
the deaf and blind child Helen Keller. Annie, herself blind
during her childhood years, comes to the Keller household at the
age of twenty to attempt to teach language to seven-year-old
Helen. Her brash self-confidence is a pose covering her deep
fear of possible failure in her first position. The clashes of
wills between herself and Helen and between herself and the
child’s father pique her Irish temper enou