Point Counter Point (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- First Published: 1928
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1920’s
- Setting: England
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Roman à clef
- Subjects: Middle classes, Marriage, 1920’s, Novelists, England or English people, Adultery, Moral conditions, Satire
- Locales: London, England
Characters Discussed
Walter Bidlake, a literary critic in London. An essentially weak and confused man, he is unhappy in his extramarital relationship with Marjorie Carling and seeks some kind of better realization in an affair with Lucy Tantamount. The author regards Walter as an example of the emptiness of the intellectual life unsupported by sound instinctual expression.
Marjorie Carling, Walter’s unhappy mistress. She has left Carling because of his perversion and yet behaves with Walter, to all effects and purposes, like a nagging wife rather than a cheering...
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