In the Shadow of the Wind (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Hebert
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The summer and autumn of 1936 and the autumn of 1982
- Setting: Fictional Griffin Creek, between Québec City and the Atlantic Ocean; and Montreal
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life
- Locales: Quebec, Canada
Characters Discussed
Stevens Brown, who returns home at the age of twenty, five years after a battle with his father. His letters to a friend in Florida sketch isolated Griffin Creek, settled in 1782 by Royalist exiles from the American Revolution. Their descendants have intermarried for generations. He is the most intense of the violent family men, scarred by his father’s brutality and his mother’s rejection. He is obsessed with two cousins who have matured into women during his absence. On August 31, 1936, driven by a storm of emotion, he strangles his cousins and sinks...
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