Storm (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Revised Third Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: August Strindberg
- First Published: 1907
- Type of Work: Naturalistic
- Type of Plot: Naturalism
- Time of Work: The early 1900’s
- Setting: Stockholm, Sweden
- Genres: Naturalistic literature, Drama, Psychological drama, Autobiographical drama
- Subjects: Values, Family or family life, Memory, Twentieth century, Betrayal, Loneliness, Old age or elderly people, Sweden or Swedish people, Isolation
- Locales: Stockholm, Sweden
Characters Discussed
The Gentleman, an aging civil servant living on a pension. Having lost his wife and daughter, he seeks only peace and order in his old age and resists intrusions in his life. He is so inflexible and set in his ways that his desire for peace can be taken as a rationalization based more on a fear of change than on principle. When his young wife and daughter reappear, he remains aloof, even to the point of assuming no responsibility for his child, whom he claims to love. He stresses that he urged his wife to leave him, although the matter remains unclear. He...
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