Miss Tempy’s Watchers (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
- First Published: 1888
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth century
- Setting: A small New Hampshire farming community
- Principal Characters: Mrs. Crowe, Sarah Ann Binson
- Genres: Social realism
- Subjects: Values
The Story
The two main characters, Mrs. Crowe and Sarah Ann Binson, fulfill the request of their deceased friend, Temperance “Tempy” Dent. Before she died, Tempy asked that the two, who had been schoolmates and her friends, “come together and look after the house, and manage everything, when she was gone.” The story, which has very little plot, is about what is revealed about the women through the commentator or narrator, through their conversations, and through their reactions to each other and to the immediate environment in which they find themselves.
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