A Month of Sundays (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Updike
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Religious
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: Primarily the American Midwest
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, Self-discovery, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Midwest, Writing, Adultery, Ethics, Clergy, Lent
- Locales: Midwest (U.S.)
Characters Discussed
The Reverend Thomas (Tom) Marshfield, a forty-one-year-old minister and the narrator. Tormented by questions about his religious belief, his marriage, and his place in life, Tom has been discovered in affairs with parishioners and has been sent for a month to a recovery center for troubled clergy, where he is required to spend each morning writing. Tom, in thirty- one chapters, examines the thoughts and actions that led to his disgrace and recounts his youth as the son of a clergyman; his years at seminary, where he met his wife, Jane; and his affairs with...
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