Lydie Breeze (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Guare
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Mythic
- Time of Work: 1895
- Setting: Nantucket Island
- Genres: Drama, Psychological drama, Mythological literature, Farce, Dark comedy
- Subjects: Family or family life, Memory, Sex or sexuality, Nineteenth century, New England, Corruption, Idealism, Syphilis
- Locales: Nantucket Island
Characters Discussed
Lydie Hickman, the fifteen-year-old daughter of Joshua Hickman and Lydie Breeze Hickman. Highly sensitive and theatrical, Lydie has comically flighty ways that do not quite hide the emotional maelstrom underlying her adolescent psyche. Obsessed with her mother’s suicide and embarrassed by her father’s stint in prison, Lydie is worried that she will never become a woman because she has not yet begun to menstruate. She claims that she hates men in general and her father in particular, but in reality she yearns for adulthood, the attention of men, and a...
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