Plot Summary of Play Boy of the Western World

Play boy Of the Western World Plot epitome The play is set in County Mayo in a coarse shebeen or pub. Pegeen Mike is engaged to Shawn Keogh a rich farmer, but she is not in love with him. Pegeens mystify Michael James owns the pub, and spends his time red to wakes and getting sot. A young man come tos one evening as Michael James and his two pals Jimmy Farrell and Philly Cullen are about to go off-key to a wake. This young man calls himself Christy Mahon and claims that he has killed his da.Everyone including Pegeen are fascinated and delight in Christy for this heroic deed. The men set off for the wake leaving Pegeen with Christy. The leave behind Quinn a local woman who is supposed to have murdered her economize arrives and tries to get Christy to stay the night in her hut. Pegeen has taken control of Christy at this stage and refuses to let him go. The following morning some local girls arrive to visit Christy and bring him presents. Christy is a hero in the eyes of the villagers and they pink him to participate in their local games.In the meantime Old Mahon who is Christys father arrives and meets the widow Quinn. Old Mahon has suffered a blow on his head from cosmos hit by Christy and wishes to punish him. He tells the widow about Christy and describes him as a weak character, a dirty stuttering lout who would get drunk on the smell of a pint. When Christy meets his father towards the conclusion of the play he gives him another blow on the head and it truly looks as if he is dead.The villagers including Pegeen decide to capture him and bring him to prison. Pegeen disowns him for being a liar. Old Mahon recovers merely and he and Christy leave the shebeen mocking the villagers who are unable to accept cosmos when it lands on their own door. The play concludes with Pegeen lamenting the loss of the only playboy of the western world. She is left with her loveless alliance to Shawn Keogh.