Ship of Fools (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Katherine Anne Porter
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: August 22-September 17, 1931
- Setting: Aboard the North German Lloyd S.A. , at sea
- Principal Characters: Jenny Brown, David Scott, Mary Treadwell, Dr. Schumann, La Condesa, Wilhelm Freytag
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Voyages, Class conflict, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Middle classes, Marriage, Prejudices or antipathies, Alienation, Class consciousness, 1930’s, Obsession, Ethnic relations, Anti-Semitism, Ships, Human behavior, Nazism or Nazis, Germany or German people, Gypsies
- Locales: Oceans, Veracruz, Mexico, Bremerhaven, Germany
The Story:
Many people of various nationalities waited in the heat of Veracruz, Mexico, on August 22, 1931, to board the North German Lloyd S.A. Vera, scheduled to arrive at Bremenhaven, Germany, on September 17. Some had urgent errands to perform before embarkation, while others simply killed the time. An elderly professor and his wife, the Huttens, shared their lunch with their fat bulldog; a shrill, obnoxious young woman, Lizzi Spkenkieker, strode about with a little pig-snouted man, Siegfred Rieber; a solitary Swede, Arne Hansen, expressed indignation over the...
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