Blackberry Winter (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Penn Warren
- First Published: 1946
- Type of Plot: Coming of age
- Time of Work: 1910
- Setting: Middle Tennessee
- Principal Characters: Seth, His mother, His father, The stranger, Dellie, Big Jebb, Jebb
- Genres: Short fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Nature, Yards or backyards, Farms, farmers, or farming, Boys
- Locales: Tennessee
The Story
“Blackberry Winter” describes one day in the life of a young boy on his parents’ farm, but the story is told as a recollection by a grown man, thirty-five years later. Robert Penn Warren has said that the story grew out of two memories—that of being allowed to go barefoot in the summer when school is out and that of feeling betrayed when the promises of summer are forestalled by a sudden cold spell. After beginning with this nostalgic memory, Warren realized that for it to be a story something had to happen. Therefore, he introduced the mysterious stranger who...
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Robert Penn Warren (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Robert Penn Warren (Poetry)Robert Penn Warren (Short Fiction)Robert Penn Warren (Long Fiction)Robert Penn Warren (Dictionary of World Biography)Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
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