Other Voices, Other Rooms (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Truman Capote
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Mid-twentieth century
- Setting: Mississippi
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Sex or sexuality, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Friendship, Mississippi, Loneliness, Isolation
- Locales: New Orleans, LA, Skully’s Landing
Characters Discussed
Joel Knox, a thirteen-year-old entering puberty. He is bright, beautiful, and in need of love and acceptance from someone who “belongs” to him. He is a boy in search of someone to be “with.” He goes eagerly to Skully’s Landing when his father, out of the blue, invites him there to live. Because he is so bright and insightful, his misjudgment of Ellen is puzzling. When she does not respond to the letter he mailed her saying that he hates the Landing, he thinks she has rejected him, but he had found, scattered on the ground, the coins he put in the...
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