The Headless Hawk (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Truman Streckfus Persons
- First Published: 1946
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: The 1940's
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: Vincent Waters, D. J.
- Genres: Short fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Love or romance, Art or artists, Emotions, Painting or painters, Eccentrics or eccentricities
- Locales: New York, NY
The Story
Considered one of the most complex of the author's stories, “The Headless Hawk” resembles several of Truman Capote's other pieces in its use of flashback. In the first part, the protagonist, Vincent Waters, is followed home by an unusual-looking girl; the middle section flashes back to their earlier meeting, romance, and separation; and the ending of the story returns to the beginning—the present—and accentuates the stasis of the situation, the impossibility of any resolution short of violence.
Vincent is shown in the first and last segments in a state...
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