Eva Trout (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Bowen
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1959-1967
- Setting: Various English country settings, London, Chicago, and Paris
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Language or languages, 1960’s, Children, Self-discovery, Love or romance, Suicide, Marriage, Paris, Chicago, Emotions, England or English people, Violence, Women’s issues, Adultery, Inheritance or succession, London, Wealth
- Locales: Paris, France, Chicago, IL, London, England
Characters Discussed
Eva Trout, a large, clumsy, naïve English girl with only a weak sense of selfhood. At the age of twenty-five, she becomes heiress to the fortune of her father, Willy Trout, when he commits suicide. In Eva’s infancy, her mother was killed in a plane crash as she fled from her husband’s homosexual relationship with Constantine. Just before receiving her inheritance, Eva lives with a former teacher, Iseult, and unintentionally disrupts her marriage. Morally and spiritually homeless all her life and emotionally crippled by a childhood devoid of normal...
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