The Fire-Dwellers (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Margaret Wemyss
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: A summer in the late 1960’s
- Setting: Vancouver and the fictional prairie town of Manawaka
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1960’s, Child rearing or parenting, Family or family life, Self-discovery, Mothers, Parents and children, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Communication, Marriage, Dreams, God, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Adultery, Canada or Canadians, Small-town life, Lifestyles, Middle age, Homemakers
- Locales: Vancouver, Canada
Characters Discussed
Stacey Cameron MacAindra, a Vancouver housewife who grew up in the small prairie town of Manawaka, Manitoba. Thirty-nine years old, of medium height, and dark-haired, Stacey is beset by middle-age spread and is developing a penchant for gin and tonics. She and her husband, Mac, are the parents of four children: touchy, beautiful Katie, age fourteen; reserved, tense Ian, age ten; vulnerable, lonely Duncan, age seven; and happy Jen, a two-year-old who has yet to speak. Jen’s silence until the novel’s end mirrors the novel’s theme of problems of...
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