The Rainbow | Characters
Vividly drawn characters ranging over three generations provide the reader with many provocative points of contrast and comparison in not only their circumstances of life, gender roles, and talents, but also their individual aspirations and drives as they resist, react to, or help shape the industrial and social changes described above. Because this is a family saga, we see character traits from the earlier generation resurface in later ones, and cross-generational relationships form between kindred spirits. The first generation of Brangwens is depicted as having "the look of an...
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