Fear of Flying | Characters
The first-person narrator, although typical of the contemporary intellectual milieu, also successfully represents everywoman. Isadora White Wing was born "Weiss;" her parents were Jewish artists, entertainers and leftists of the 1930s who had, in the 1940s, Anglicized the name, gone into business, and started celebrating the winter solstice (with a tree in the house on December 25) and the vernal equinox (with decorated eggs and baskets). Isadora marries a fellow graduate student of astounding intelligence (who became violently insane) and then an emotionless — but safe — Chinese...
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