The Oldest Living Graduate (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Preston Jones
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Representational
- Time of Work: Summer, 1962
- Setting: West Texas, particularly Bradleyville
- Genres: Drama, Psychological drama
- Subjects: 1960’s, Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Memory, South or Southerners, West, U.S., Veterans, Small-town life, Progress, Texas, Time, Old age or elderly people
- Locales: Texas, Bradleyville, TX
Characters Discussed
Colonel J. C. Kinkaid, an eccentric World War I veteran and the oldest living graduate of Mirabeau B. Lamar Military Academy. At the age of seventy-five, the colonel is senile, but his lack of touch with reality can be traced back as far as his return from fighting in the war. Bound to a wheelchair, the colonel is dependent on others, particularly his daughter-in- law, Maureen Kinkaid, and he usually greets these people with ill- tempered insults. The colonel slips in and out of reality, sometimes thinking that he is back in the war or talking to his dead...
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