All Fall Down (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: James Leo Herlihy
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: Late 1950’s
- Setting: Cleveland, Ohio
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: 1950’s, Family or family life, Adolescence, Suicide, Midwest, Brothers, Boys
- Locales: Florida, Cleveland, OH
Characters Discussed
Clinton Williams, the viewpoint character and narrator of portions of the story through his journal. He is approximately sixteen years old during most of the action in the novel. Like Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951), he is perceptive and articulate, but he is far more idealistic and gullible. Clinton, a romantic, experiences emotional liberation through his painful epiphany. Although he wants to be a writer, he cannot produce anything except verbatim transcriptions of other people’s speech and...
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