Her Quaint Honor (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Caroline Gordon
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1930's
- Setting: Kentucky's tobacco-growing region
- Principal Characters: Jim Taylor, Tom Doty, Frankie Doty, Miss Jinny Taylor, Bud Asbury, Uncle Phil
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: South or Southerners, Slavery or slaves, Interracial relationships, 1930’s, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Violence, Farms, farmers, or farming, Success or failure, Tobacco, Cooperation
- Locales: Kentucky
The Story
After Jim Taylor's business in the city failed, he returned to Taylor's Grove, his family's home for generations. Soon discontented there, he moved to Louisville, where he ran a gas station until the Great Depression brought financial ruin. Now he is home again, trying his hand at tobacco farming. As his narrative begins, he expresses his disappointment at earning only fifteen cents per leaf on his first crop instead of the thirty cents that he expected. Jim's latest venture depends on the cooperation of other people. Although he has no hesitation about living with...
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