Final Payments (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Gordon
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The mid-1970’s
- Setting: New York City
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1970’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, New York City, Religion, Friendship, Feminism, Lesbianism or lesbians, Women’s issues, Fathers, Adultery, Death or dying, Sick persons, Lifestyles, Catholics or Catholic Church, Nursing or nurses, Happiness
- Locales: New York, NY
Characters Discussed
Isabel Moore, a product of a sheltered Catholic upbringing. She nursed her widowed father in his long final illness. Thirty years old at the time of her father’s death, Isabel finds herself with unaccustomed freedom from his constant needs. She must come to terms both with her lost faith and her lost youth. She takes a job with a social services agency surveying the living arrangements of people who care for the elderly in their homes, a position that makes her look into a variety of homes, both loveless and loving. Simultaneously eager to experience life...
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