Lives of Girls and Women (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Munro
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: The 1940’s and early 1950’s
- Setting: Jubilee, a small town in southwestern Ontario
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Bildungsroman, Domestic realism, Autobiographical fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Girls, Maturation or coming of age, 1960’s, Children, Family or family life, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, 1940’s, Religion, Social life, Writing, Poverty or poor people, Women’s issues, Women, Canada or Canadians, Small-town life, High schools or high school students, Intellect
- Locales: Jubilee, Canada
Characters Discussed
Del Jordan, the protagonist and narrator, who lives in Jubilee, a small town in Ontario, Canada. Each of the eight chapters of this “autobiographical” novel presents a new stage in Del’s coming-of-age. She begins the story as a curious child, becomes an academically successful but not very popular student, takes a lover, and becomes a writer. As the chapters unfold, she confronts for the first time the idea of death, gradually recognizes the complexity of her relationship with her mother, desires passionately but ultimately rejects religious...
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