Aunt Carrie (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Rita Dove
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The mid-twentieth century
- Setting: An unnamed city and Fort Myers, Florida
- Principal Characters: The unnamed narrator, Aunt Carrie, Ernest Price, Belle Price, Sam Rogers, Edna Rogers, Grandma Evans
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Children, Family or family life, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Marriage, Incest, Trains, Loneliness
- Locales: Fort Myers, FL
The Story
“Aunt Carrie” is told in two parts, first from the perspective of the narrator as a child and later as the childhood experience is re-evaluated by the narrator as an adult.
The setting for the first portion of the story is a train station. The nine-year-old narrator is excited by her first visit to a train station. She is awed by the dark and noisy trains and by her imaginings of Pittsburgh, the point of departure for her father, whom she, her mother, and her Aunt Carrie have come to meet. Ernest Price has been away attending a convention and is about to...
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