The Admiral and the Nuns (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Frank Tuohy
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1952
- Setting: Brazil
- Principal Characters: Barbara Woroszylski, Stefan Woroszylski, Fernando Ferreira, Doralice Ferreira, The Narrator
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Culture, Class conflict, Alienation, Brazil or Brazilians, Loneliness
- Locales: Brazil
The Story
An unnamed English visitor to a South American country that seems to be Brazil unintentionally becomes involved in the lives of Stefan Woroszylski, a Polish laboratory assistant at a remote industrial development project, and Barbara, his English wife. Barbara insists on inflicting on her fellow Englishman the “emotional confusion” built up over two years in a strange country. In contrast, Stefan is relatively comfortable in Brazil because several Poles are there.
The daughter of an admiral, educated in a convent, Barbara desperately misses the active...
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