Daughters (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Paule Marshall
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1930’s to the 1980’s
- Setting: New York City and Triunion, a fictional island in the West Indies
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s
- Locales: New York, NY
Characters Discussed
Ursa Beatrice Mackenzie, the protagonist and narrator. The only child of a teacher from Connecticut and a prominent West Indian political leader, Ursa now lives in New York City after having spent her first fourteen years on the island of Triunion. Although she seems independent and successful, in fact everything about Ursa’s life is uncertain, from her future as a free-lance researcher to her relationship with her longtime lover, Lowell Carruthers, whom she trusts so little that she has an abortion without even informing him of her pregnancy. It becomes...
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