The Member of the Wedding (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Carson McCullers
- First Published: 1951
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Impressionistic realism
- Time of Work: August, 1945
- Setting: Georgia
- Genres: Domestic realism, Drama, Psychological drama
- Subjects: African Americans, Girls, Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Adolescence, Teenagers, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, South or Southerners, 1940’s, Alienation, Brothers and sisters, Dreams, Emotions, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Georgia, Death or dying, Small-town life, Amputation, amputees, or prosthetics, Servants, Loneliness, Soldiers, Weddings, Time, Isolation
- Locales: Georgia
Characters Discussed
Frankie Addams, a confident yet naïve tomboy. The twelve-year-old is conscious of her height (five feet, six inches) and has had her hair shaved off, though it has grown to resemble a boy’s. She is uneasy about her developing sensuality, her family relationships, and social behavior, especially among adults, servants, and other adolescents. Recently, she has been evicted from a movie house for booing a romantic film and has been rejected as a member of a local girls’ club. The motherless blonde girl decides to become a member of her brother’s wedding...
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