The Oldest Living Graduate (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Preston Jones
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: Summer, 1962
- Setting: West Texas
- Principal Characters: Colonel J. C. Kinkaid, Floyd Kinkaid, Maureen Kinkaid, Clarence Sickenger, Martha Ann Sickenger, Mike Tremaine
- 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
The Play
The Oldest Living Graduate concerns an important week near the end of Colonel J. C. Kinkaid’s life. The audience is immediately introduced to him in the first scene through his exchange (“conversation” is hardly the word) with his daughter-in-law, Maureen Kinkaid, and their neighbor Martha Ann Sickenger. The setting, as it remains throughout the play, is the den of his son’s ranch-style house on the outskirts of Bradleyville, Texas. This dialogue is important not so much for the information it conveys as for the personalities it reveals. The colonel is...
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