The Stone Diaries (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Carol Shields
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: 1905 to the 1990’s
- Setting: Manitoba and Ontario, in Canada; Indiana and Florida, in the United States
- Principal Characters: Daisy Goodwill Flett, Mercy Stone Goodwill, Cuyler Goodwill, Clarentine Flett, Magnus Flett, Barker Flett, Elfreda Hoyt (Fraidy), Labina Anthony (Beans)
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, United States or Americans, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Self, Women, Death or dying, Canada or Canadians, Newspapers, Orphans or orphanages, Life, philosophy of, Stonecutting
- Locales: Florida, Indiana, Ontario, Canada, Manitoba, Canada
The Novel
The Stone Diaries is the story of the life of Daisy Goodwill Hoad Flett. The novel is divided into ten chapters, beginning with “Birth, 1905” and ending with “Death.” A fictional biography of a Canadian American woman, the novel spans her childhood, marriages, children, work, decline, and death.
Narrated by several different voices, but most often by Daisy herself, the novel weaves a complex pattern of stories that belie the chronological layout of the book. The description of Daisy’s own birth, for example, is told by Daisy in the first...
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