The Mighty and Their Fall (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: Mid-twentieth century
- Setting: An unnamed town in England
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Twentieth century, Social issues, Marriage, 1910’s, England or English people, Fathers, Human behavior, Widows or widowers, Pretensions
- Locales: England
Characters Discussed
Ninian Middleton, the father in an upper- class English family. A self-righteous widower who deeply loves his mother and children, he decides to take a new wife and provide his children with a stepmother. When he learns that his daughter Lavinia has taken immoral steps to prevent the marriage, he reacts harshly to her, not by banishing her from the family but by putting her in circumstances in which the act of hiding a letter from his fiancée will never be forgotten and, therefore, never really forgiven. Ninian subsequently makes a similar mistake when his...
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