Brighton Beach Memoirs Brighton Beach Memoirs is the story of one family's struggle to survive in the pre-World War II age of the "Great Depression". This was a time of great hardship where pain and suffering were eminent. In this play, Neil Simon gives us a painfully realistic view of life during the late 1930s. The setting takes place in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York, in the fall of 1937. It is a lower-income area inhabited …showed first 75 words of 496 total…

…showed last 75 words of 496 total…the most attention. There are many plots in this play, like Nora's decision to join a play, Stanley's many money and job problems, and Jack's ongoing heart problems. Perhaps the main plot in this play is the families' struggles to support eachother. We see many problems that threaten the families' stability. They soon find that the only way to survive through these hard times is to stick together and work their problems out as one.