The Floating Opera (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Barth
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1920’s and 1930’s
- Setting: Maryland’s eastern shore
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Philosophy or philosophers, Suicide, 1920’s, 1930’s, Adultery, Wills, Lawyers, Life and death
- Locales: Maryland
Characters Discussed
Todd Andrews, a fifty-four-year-old lawyer living alone in the Dorset Hotel in Cambridge, Maryland. An expensive dresser, cigar smoker, and chronicler of his own life, he suffers heart and prostate trouble. He fancies that he resembles actor Gregory Peck. Never married, he enjoys an intimate relationship with Jane Mack, his best friend’s wife. He claims he is not a philosopher, yet he makes a habit of applying his own eccentric notions to his own and other people’s lives, often with grim results. He passes through various “poses” through the years...
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