The Diviners (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Laurence
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: 1930 to the 1970’s
- Setting: Manawaka, Toronto, and Vancouver, Canada
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Bildungsroman, Domestic realism, Autobiographical fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, Self-discovery, Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Gender roles, Authors or writers, Extrasensory perception or powers, Marriage, Writing, College life, Novelists, Women’s issues, Single parents or single-parent families, Adultery, Death or dying, Adoption or adopted children, Canada or Canadians, Rivers or waterways, Small-town life, Heroes or heroism, Water
- Locales: Toronto, Canada, Vancouver, Canada, Manawaka, Canada
Characters Discussed
Morag Gunn, the protagonist, a forty- seven-year-old novelist writing the novel containing her story. As she looks back over her life, she believes that her artistic talent always was evident. After her parents died of poliomyelitis, she was reared by Christie Logan in a poor part of town where Métis (half-breeds), like her first lover, Jules, also lived. She grew up listening to Christie haranguing about the muck of life in the past and present. Christie thought he was creating pride and identity in Morag by telling her stories about her family, the...
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