The Ambassadors (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry James
- First Published: 1903
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: c. 1900
- Setting: Paris, France
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Values, Mothers, Parents and children, Traveling or travelers, France or French people, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Paris, Ethics, Aristocracy or aristocrats
- Locales: Paris, France, England
Characters Discussed
Lambert Strether, the chief ambassador of Mrs. Newsome, his betrothed. Strether is sent to summon Mrs. Newsome’s son Chad back from Paris to the family business in Wollett, Massachusetts. The fifty-five-year-old editor of a review, Strether has all the tact and diplomacy necessary to accomplish his task, but his sensitivity will not allow him either to complete it or to take advantage of Chad’s situation to gain his own ends. He sees Chad as immeasurably better off in Paris and himself as somehow changed and strengthened by his sojourn abroad, though he...
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