Plains Song, for Female Voices (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Wright Morris
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The early 1900’s to the late 1970’s
- Setting: Madison County, Nebraska, and Chicago
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans
- Locales: Chicago, IL
Characters Discussed
Cora Atkins, who is six feet tall, lean, and blonde, with an English complexion totally unsuited to the climate of the Great Plains. She moves from the East with her new husband to a farm in northeastern Nebraska. Her husband is always a stranger to her, and she to him. Firm and implacable, with her emotions always hidden, she is fenced off from others, epitomizing the isolated farm woman who finds grim satis-faction in the fact that her hard physical work is never done. Her marriage includes only one sexual act, which so horrifies her that she bites her...
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