Foxfire (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Joyce Carol Oates
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1952-1956
- Setting: Hammond, a small city in upstate New York
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Girls, United States or Americans, Sexism, Teenagers, Crime or criminals, Prostitution or prostitutes, Alienation, Gangs, youth, Poverty or poor people, Rape, Violence, Feminism, Revenge, Sexual harassment, Kidnapping, Women’s rights, Typewriters
- Locales: Hammond, NY, Lake Ontario
Characters Discussed
Madeleine (Maddy) Faith Wirtz, the novel’s narrator. Maddy lives quietly in New Mexico, where she works as an astronomer’s assistant. Thirty-five years earlier, she was a member of FOXFIRE and the historian of that gang’s violent exploits. Now, in 1989, the fifty-year-old Maddy is transcribing the notebooks in which she recorded the adventures of the girl gang in the early 1950’s.
Margaret Ann “Legs” Sadovsky, FOXFIRE’s first in command and the inspiration for most of its adventures. Sixteen years old when she brings the gang of misfit...
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