The Aerodrome (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Rex Warner
- First Published: 1941
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: Shortly after the start of World War II
- Setting: An English village
- Genres: Long fiction, Allegory
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Tradition, Power, personal or social, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, World War II, England or English people, Progress, Airplanes or jets, Aeronautics
- Locales: England
Characters Discussed
Roy, the supposed son of the Rector and his wife. Roy (though athletic and educated at home) is a typical village inhabitant of undeveloped character. At his twenty-first birthday dinner party (a British rite of passage to adulthood), he is told that he is adopted; he responds by getting drunk. He is ambivalent about the village (representing muddling tradition) and the aerodrome (representing modern efficiency). He is both sensual and thoughtful. Although he loses and regains his desire to see the world in realistic terms, he sees that he can neither...
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