The Fathers (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Revised Third Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Allen Tate
- First Published: 1938
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: 1860-1861
- Setting: Northern Virginia and Georgetown
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Memory, Tradition, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Civil War, Good and evil, Moral conditions
- Locales: Virginia, Washington, D.C.
Characters Discussed
Lacy Buchan (BUHK-an), the narrator of the novel. Now sixty years old and a bachelor, he was fifteen in April of 1860, when his mother died. He remembers the events of that year, the one before the beginning of the Civil War. The narrator is an educated, pensive man who wants to understand what happened to his family and why. The boy was torn between the tradition represented by his father and the more exciting lifestyle of George Posey. During the year in which the action of the novel takes place, Lacy falls in love with his brother-in-law’s sister,...
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