Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. ... The boys of Never Land are dead, and so Peter Pan, arriving at the window of the Darling family, is a ghost. ... Peter Pan, as a ghost whose first appearance is announced as "uncanny,"" is the sign of anxiety within the play. ... The strain of having limited and insecure affluence is the context of Peter Pan, which opens in the nursery of a house "at the top of a rather depressed street in Bloo...

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