The Lovely Leave | Literary Precedents
In some ways, Mimi McVicker can be compared to Penelope, the long-suffering wife of Odysseus. Parker was familiar with that Greek myth, but in both poetry and fiction she rewrites the tale, making the waiting wife a little less patient and compliant than Penelope. As in the Penelope section of The Odyssey, "The Lovely Leave" is a war story told from a domestic point of view. We see the effects of war on the women who wait at home.
A number of Parker's contemporaries wrote war fiction that may have influenced Parker, or that offer interesting comparisons. Ernest Hemingway's...
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