The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Thornton Wilder
- First Published: 1927
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Philosophical realism
- Time of Work: Early eighteenth century
- Setting: Peru
- Genres: Long fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, Brothers, Eighteenth century, Christianity, Fate or fatalism, South America or South Americans, Peru or Peruvians, Bridges
- Locales: Peru
Characters Discussed
Brother Juniper (JEW-neh- pehr), a Spanish friar who tries to prove that the collapse of the bridge of San Luis Rey in Peru is an act showing the wisdom of God, who properly sent five persons to their deaths in the accident. For his book, which is condemned by the Church, the friar is burned at the stake.
The narrator, who finds a copy of Brother Juniper’s eighteenth century book and reconstructs for the reader the lives of the five persons who died when the bridge collapsed.
The Marquesa de Montemayor (mohn-teh-may- OHR), an ugly woman with...
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