The paper presents possible classical inspirations of John Braine’s novel ‘Room at the Top’ (1957). It is an attempt to analyses the text of the novel belonging to the so called Angry Young Period as a tragic work which translated into the reality of the late 1940s Great Britain the myth of Jason and Medea, represented in the text of the paper by its most classic rendition, the ancient tragedy by Euripides entitled Medea. The article moves on to discuss the issue of to what extent it is possible to adapt classical material, and to what extent tragedy is impossible today while any attempt of recreating it must result in a parody of the classical form.