The Night of the Iguana (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Tennessee Williams
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1940
- Setting: Mexico
- Genres: Drama, Psychological drama
- Subjects: Values, Self-discovery, Sex or sexuality, 1940’s, Guilt, Ministry or ministers, Mexico or Mexicans, Tourist trade, Rope
- Locales: Mexico
Characters Discussed
T. Lawrence (Larry) Shannon, a former Episcopal priest, now a tour guide. The handsome thirty-five-year- old American is suffering through the opening stages of a nervous breakdown. When he arrives at Maxine’s Costa Verde Hotel, he has hit bottom; in a relatively brief period, he has descended from being the promising young rector of an affluent Virginia congregation to conducting tours for an international travel agency to, finally, leading a group of Baptist schoolteachers around Mexico under the aegis of a seedy travel bureau. Although part of...
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