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Myra Breckinridge (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)

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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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