Noon Wine | Characters
Characters in Noon Wine are drawn from those visual memories Porter examines in her essay about the story. Helton is drawn from the lonely figure of a man playing a harmonica on a cabin porch. The farmer and wife visiting her grandmother provided the outlines for the Thompsons, but Porter's artistry fleshes them out and balances this small cast of characters in elegant simplicity.
The opening characterization of Thompson as outwardly guffawing while inwardly scheming when he meets Helton is artfully reprised in the characterization of Hatch. The dislike Thompson immediately...
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