Myra Breckinridge (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Gore Vidal
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1968
- Setting: Hollywood, California
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1960’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Acting or actors, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Gender roles, California, West, U.S., Widows or widowers, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Hollywood, Filmmaking or filmmakers
- Locales: Hollywood, CA
Characters Discussed
Myra Breckinridge (MI-rah BREHK-ehn-ridj), the novel’s protagonist, who believes that the highest contemporary art form is the television commercial. She inherits her dead husband’s half share in an acting academy when she is twenty-seven years old. Myra’s co- owner of the academy, Buck Loner, her dead husband’s uncle, tries to force himself sexually upon Myra, but she considers him repulsive. Myra represents the “New Woman,” asserting that contemporary woman is living at the beginning of the age of “Women Triumphant, of Myra Breckinridge.”...
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