Amy Foster (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- First Published: 1903
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1890's
- Setting: East coast of England
- Principal Characters: Yanko Goorall, Amy Foster, Kennedy, Swaffer
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Language or languages, Voyages, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Alienation, Immigration or emigration, England or English people, Farms, farmers, or farming, Storytelling, Death or dying, Shipwrecks, Castaways, Isolation
- Locales: England
The Story
An unnamed narrator recalls a time several years earlier, when he was staying with his friend Kennedy, a country doctor in the English coastal village of Colebrook, near Brenzett. One day as he accompanied the doctor on his afternoon rounds, they came upon a dull-looking woman named Amy Foster, who was hanging out her wash. Kennedy asked after her son's health. As he continued his rounds, he told the narrator about this woman's recent life.
Although Kennedy agreed that the woman looked passive and inert, he confided that this same woman once had enough...
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