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Related Titles

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Tolkien followed The Hobbit with a three-volume sequel, The Lord of the Rings. This trilogy is far more serious in tone and more complex in […]

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Introduction

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This was Carson McCullers’s first novel, published in 1940, when the author was just twenty-three years old. It started out as a short story in […]

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Carson Mccullers

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McCullers was born Lulu Carson Smith on February 19, 1917, in Columbus, Georgia. Her family had deep roots in the South: her great-grandfather, Major John […]

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Plot Summary

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A Part One The first section of this novel has six chapters-one chapter focused on each of the five main characters, and then the sixth […]

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Characters

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A Spiros Antonapoulos Antonapoulos is the person that John Singer cares most about in the world, even though there is little evidence that he returned […]

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Themes

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A Strength and Weakness Very early in the book Biff Brannon announces to his wife, “I like freaks.” Her response is “I reckon you ought […]

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Construction

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A Grotesque The idea of the grotesque has run throughout American literature, through the works of Melville, Hawthorne and Poe, and may in fact have […]

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Historical Perspective

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A Fascism The character of Mick is so politically naive early in the novel that when she is defacing the wall of a house under […]

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Questions

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World War II had started in Europe when this novel took place, although America did not enter it until a year and a half later. […]

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Compare and Contrast

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1940: England and France were at war with Germany, Italy and Japan: later that year France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, and Romania fell […]