The Bean Trees | Characters
One of Kingsolver's greatest gifts as a novelist is characterization, and this skill is already firmly in place in The Bean Trees, her first novel. Though characters in her later novels show more depth and are more likely to be a complex mix of positive and negative traits, each and every person who appears in The Bean Trees is a unique individual with his or her own quirks and habits, with a history and a story to tell.
Taylor is a somewhat idealized character, but this is in keeping with the tradition of the quest narrative: a virtuous innocent thrust out into the...
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