The Hotel New Hampshire (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Irving
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1940’s to the late 1970’s
- Setting: Maine; Dairy, New Hampshire; Vienna; and New York City
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Suicide, New York City, 1940’s, New England, Incest, Rape, Death or dying, Hotels, motels, or inns, Terrorism or terrorists, Austria or Austrians, Bears
- Locales: New York, NY, Vienna, Austria, Maine, New Hampshire
Characters Discussed
John Berry, the third child of Mary Bates Berry and Winslow Berry. He chronicles the family’s life, first from his parents’ accounts and later as a sympathetic and reflective eyewitness. His incestuous love for his sister Frannie is cured drastically by the loving Frannie herself. His daily weight lifting and running provide the strength for him to squeeze to death one of the men plotting to blow up the Vienna Opera House and take the Berry family as hostages. John takes good care of his blinded father both in New York and in the old Hotel...
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