Gerald's Game | Characters
Gerald Burlingame, a corporate lawyer, makes only a brief appearance at the beginning of the novel. His "game" of bondage is the catalyst for Jessie's change from a passive, unfulfilled wife to traumatized victim and ultimately, a whole woman. While struggling with Gerald who has handcuffed Jessie to the bed, she accidentally kills him. Left handcuffed at their isolated summer cottage, she deals with increasingly painful memories of sexual abuse at age ten by her father. Her entrapment then forces her to come to terms with her own passivity, unfulfillment, and psychic wounds.
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