The Home-maker (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Dorothy Canfield
- First Published: 1924
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The early 1920’s
- Setting: A small town in New England
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Child rearing or parenting, Family or family life, Parents and children, Suicide, Gender roles, 1920’s, Individuality, New England, Accidents, Lifestyles, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Work or workers, Sales personnel, Accountants or accounting, Career women, Homemakers
- Locales: New England
Characters Discussed
Evangeline (Eva) Knapp, a housewife. An intense, dark-haired woman in her early thirties, during thirteen years of marriage she has lost her former beauty and now looks worn and unhappy. Because she hates housework but has nothing else to throw herself into, she is impatient with her husband and children, constantly monitoring their behavior, alternately scolding and taking refuge in a polite but oppressive martyrdom. When she takes a job in Willing’s Department Store, she has an outlet for her artistic talent as well as her genius at organization and...
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