Dec 18, 2009
Country Place | Country Place
At a glance:
- Author: Ann Petry
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The late 1940’s
- Setting: Lennox, Connecticut
- Principal Characters: Johnnie Roane, Mrs. Bertha Laughton Gramby, Glory Roane, Lillian Gramby, The Weasel, Pop Fraser
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Northeast, U.S., Class conflict, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, 1940’s, Prejudices or antipathies, Class consciousness, New England, Violence, Connecticut, Death or dying, Good and evil, Revenge, Storms, Veterans, Wills
- Locales: Lennox, CT
The Novel
Country Place is a departure both from Ann Petry’s first novel, The Street
(1946), and from African American literary tradition. Country Place focuses on a community
of main characters who are predominantly white; the book’s minor characters are of varying
ethnicities and cultures within a small, rural New England town. The conflicts that arise between the
characters, however, are conflicts of class. Petry focuses on the demarcation between the aristocratic
and working classes to expose the town’s underlying foundations of bigotry, malice,...
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