The Petrified Forest (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert E. Sherwood
- First Published: 1935
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Melodrama
- Time of Work: The early 1930’s
- Setting: The eastern Arizona desert
- Genres: Drama, Melodrama, Suspense
- Subjects: Values, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Murder or homicide, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, 1930’s, West, U.S., Gangsters, Organized crime, Arizona, Southwest, Deserts
- Locales: Arizona
Characters Discussed
Gramp Maple, the owner of the Black Mesa Bar-B-Q in eastern Arizona, near the New Mexico border. He is a dinosaur of a man, a self-styled pioneer who has lived past the age of pioneers. Gramp runs the restaurant with the help of his son, his granddaughter, and Boze Hertzlinger, who works for him. Gramp relates to Duke Mantee, an escapee from prison who lands in the Black Mesa. He looks on Duke as the kind of pioneer he would like to be and probably, despite his boasts, has never been.
Jason Maple, Gramp’s son, an American Legionnaire who has spent...
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