Bird at My Window (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Rosa Cuthbert
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Naturalism
- Time of Work: the 1920’s to the 1950’s
- Setting: Harlem, New York, and Paris, France
- Genres: Long fiction, Naturalistic literature
- Subjects: African Americans, Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Self-discovery, Parents and children, Prisons, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Antiheroes, Brothers and sisters, Dreams, Genius, Harlem, Paris
- Locales: Harlem, NY, Paris, France
Characters Discussed
Wade Williams, the protagonist, a virile, attractive, light-skinned African American male who is “thirty-eight and never married yet never free.” His life is bound up in his family and his neighborhood, and his natural intelligence and intermittent attempts at personal freedom are hampered by the conditioning of those two forces.
“Big Willie” Williams, Wade’s father, a physically powerful, half-white man who lives with a bullet in his heart for one year after he is shot in a card game. It is his unfinished business, his pledge to avenge...
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