Democracy (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Joan Didion
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Political
- Time of Work: 1952-1975
- Setting: Hawaii and Southeast Asia
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Political fiction, Metafiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Politics, Murder or homicide, Marriage, Alienation, Vietnam War, Adultery, Death or dying, Politicians, Lifestyles, Southeast Asia
- Locales: Saigon, Vietnam, Honolulu, HI, Southeast Asia
Characters Discussed
Inez Christian Victor, an attractive member of an entrenched, wealthy Hawaiian family that lacks warmth and closeness. At the age of twenty, in 1955, she weds Harry Victor, who in 1969 becomes a U.S. senator and is later considered to be presidential material. Politics, she decides, costs her her memory and privacy. Consequently, she looks for intimacy in an intermittent affair with Jack Lovett, who, however, as an international adventurer is rarely available. After his death, she decides to assist refugees in Kuala Lumpur, with whom she can identify...
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