Myra Breckinridge | Characters
Myra is the bitch goddess she proclaims herself to be, a symbolic embodiment of the new woman, larger than life and twice as deadly. The fact that she is a transsexual only makes her symbolic power the stronger because she can be seen to have chosen womanhood. Other characters include Letitia Van Allen, yesterday's nymphomaniac, a self-directed woman but one living in the past and only fooling herself that she is using men, and Buck Loner, the ineffectual remnant of male supremacy. Rusty and Mary-Ann represent the misguided values of the past thoughtlessly perpetuated by the younger...
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