The Little Foxes (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Lillian Hellman
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1900
- Setting: The Deep South
- Genres: Social realism, Drama, Psychological drama
- Subjects: Values, Family or family life, United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Betrayal, Brothers and sisters, Blackmail, Death or dying, Greed, Ethics, Business or business people, Money, Theft, Heart attack or disease
- Locales: South (U.S.)
Characters Discussed
Regina Giddens, a conniving and grasping woman. Eager for her share in the profits of a proposed cotton mill, she contrives to get her fatally ill husband, Horace, home from the hospital to be worked on by her family to supply her share of the needed investment. When he refuses to have anything to do with the project, she cruelly taunts him with her contempt and refuses him his medicine when he feels the onset of a fatal attack.
Benjamin and
Oscar Hubbard, Regina Giddens’ conniving and grasping brothers. Lacking Regina’s share of the...
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