So Big (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Edna Ferber
- First Published: 1924
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Setting: Illinois
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Values, Child rearing or parenting, United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Gambling, Twentieth century, Beauty, Farms, farmers, or farming, Fathers, Ambition, Lifestyles, Life, philosophy of, Career women
- Locales: Illinois
Characters Discussed
Selina Peake DeJong, a female schoolteacher turned truck farmer outside Chicago. To support herself after her gambler father is murdered, nineteen-year-old Selina accepts a teaching job in the Dutch community of High Prairie. Her exclamation that the fields of cabbages are beautiful elicits guffaws from the pragmatic, work-worn Dutch, but her ability to seek and find beauty in the most unlikely of circumstances pervades her entire life, bringing zest and adventure to her and success to the dilapidated farm she inherits from her husband. Becoming physically...
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