As for Me and My House (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Sinclair Ross
- First Published: 1941
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1930’s, during the Great Depression
- Setting: Horizon, a town on the Canadian prairie
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Marriage, Rural or country life, Depression, economic, 1930’s, Despair, Poverty or poor people, Ministry or ministers, Adultery, Christianity, Canada or Canadians, Disasters, Natural disasters, Church or churches, Droughts
- Locales: Canada
Characters Discussed
Mrs. Bentley, the wife of Philip Bentley; her first name is never given. She narrates the novel through the journal she keeps during two years of their life in Horizon. She is pale, with dark shadows under her eyes, wears no makeup, and often mentions that her clothes are shabby. She is a loyal, loving, and protective wife but also a frustrated artist, having given up her study of the piano to follow Philip. She records her despair at Philip’s growing alienation from her and from his work, her guilt at not being able to have children after giving birth to...
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