The Killdeer (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: James Reaney
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Comedy
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: A small town in southwestern Ontario, Canada
- Genres: Drama, Melodrama, Comedy
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, Parents and children, Love or romance, Trials, Lawyers, Canada or Canadians
- Locales: Ontario, Canada
Characters Discussed
Mrs. Vinnie Gardner, a fussy, tyrannical, religious widow. She dominates her timid son Harry, but they nevertheless have a close and caring, if claustrophobic, relationship. A pious woman, she takes a kind of self-righteous pleasure in vicious gossip. She buys cosmetic items from Madam Fay, despite her claim that the use of cosmetics goes against her religious beliefs, because she relishes the sordid tale of adultery and murder that Madam Fay tells her during her sales call. She dies of a ruptured appendix.
Harry Gardner, Mrs. Gardner’s...
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