Show Plot Splendor in the Grass

Authors: William Inge

Time Period: 1928 through the early 1930s, spanning the end of the Roaring Twenties and the onset of the Great Depression.

Summary:

Splendor in the Grass tells the tragic story of high school sweethearts Bud Stamper and Deanie Loomis as they battle intense sexual repression and parental pressure in small-town America.