The Hasty Heart (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Patrick
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Comedy
- Time of Work: The early 1940’s
- Setting: The Assam/Burma border
- Genres: Drama, Comedy, War drama
- Subjects: Love or romance, 1940’s, Friendship, Death or dying, Personality, Soldiers, Nursing or nurses, Hospitals, Southeast Asia, Isolation
- Locales: Burma, Assam
Characters Discussed
Lachlen (Lachie) McLachlen (LO-kee), a twenty-one-year-old Scottish soldier fighting for the British in the Burmese campaign of World War II. Small, slightly built, feisty, proud, solitary, independent, and surly, Lachie was orphaned as a child, has no family or friends, and has never trusted or been friendly with anyone. He yearns for companionship but is afraid to open himself up to people for fear of being rejected and deserted. When a piece of shrapnel destroys one of his kidneys, leaving the remaining kidney defective, Lachie is doomed to die within...
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