SOURCE: "The Characters: Psychology and Symbols," in The World of Jean Anouilh, University of California Press, 1961, pp. 165-91.
In the excerpt below, Pronko explores Anouilh's technique of characterization, in which he mixes "characters who are often convincingly alive" with those that are symbols or general types.
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