The Closed Garden (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Julien Green
- First Published: 1927
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1908
- Setting: France
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Parents and children, France or French people, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Guilt, Yards or backyards, Doctors, Obsession, Fathers, Accidents, Loneliness
- Locales: France
Characters Discussed
Adrienne Mesurat (ah-DRYEHN meh-zew-RAH), a highly impressionable French girl of sixteen. She falls in love with Dr. Maurecourt when he tips his hat to her. Her peculiar actions, including stealing out of the house to watch Maurecourt’s house, arouse suspicions in her sister and even the neighbors. After her sister has left home for a hospital, Adrienne accidentally kills her father by knocking him down a flight of stairs. Alone in the world, robbed by Mme. Legras, Adrienne goes mad.
Germaine Mesurat (zhehr-MEHN), Adrienne’s older sister, an...
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