Other Women (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Lisa Alther
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: Early 1980’s
- Setting: An unnamed city in New Hampshire
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Domestic realism
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Psychology or psychologists, 1980’s, New England, New Hampshire, Lesbianism or lesbians, Women, Nursing or nurses, Psychotherapy or psychotherapists
- Locales: New Hampshire
Characters Discussed
Caroline Kelly, a woman in her thirties, the divorced mother of a son and a daughter. She earns her living as an emergency room nurse. She has shared a house for some time with Diana, her lesbian lover, but their relationship has problems that are becoming increasingly serious, and she feels a lack of security and the lack of social acceptability that marriage to a man would provide. She is tempted by the offer of marriage from Brian Stone, who is, like her former husband, a physician. Trying to decide, Caroline goes into therapy with Hannah Burke. In the...
[The entire page is 857 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Navigate
See Also
