Confederate General from Big Sur | Characters
Unlike Trout Fishing in America (1967), Confederate General from Big Sur has no traditional characters. The novel is narrated by Jesse, a mild-mannered theological student, a minister without a church. In the absence of a calling, Jesse retreats into a passive and fatalistic acceptance of the world around him. He becomes an observer who refuses to judge or analyze.
The focus of the novel is Lee Mellon, a self-proclaimed Confederate general. Mellon, the unreflective, and sometimes cruel, man of war, is Jesse's opposite, but both he and Jesse are examples of the...
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