Look Homeward, Angel (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Wolfe
- First Published: 1929
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Impressionistic realism
- Time of Work: 1900-early 1920’s
- Setting: North Carolina
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Domestic realism, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Child rearing or parenting, Family or family life, South or Southerners, Authors or writers, Education or educators, Brothers and sisters, 1910’s, 1920’s, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Child abuse, Emotions, Substance abuse, College life, Cancer, Adultery, North Carolina, Death or dying, Inheritance or succession, Greed, Loneliness, Colleges or universities, Life, philosophy of, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Biography
- Locales: North Carolina
Characters Discussed
Eugene Gant, a shy, imaginative, awkward boy. The youngest child in a tumultuous family, with a wastrel father and a penny-pinching mother, he passes through childhood alone and misunderstood, for there is no family affection. He is precocious, with an insatiable appetite for books. He hates his mother’s penuriousness, the family jealousies, and the waste of all their lives, yet is fascinated by the drunken magniloquence of his father. His salvation is the private school he is allowed to attend, for the Leonards, who operate it, develop and shape his...
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