Suddenly Last Summer (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Tennessee Williams
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The mid-twentieth century
- Setting: New Orleans, Louisiana
- Genres: Drama
- Subjects: Values
- Locales: New Orleans, LA
Characters Discussed
Violet Venable, a wealthy Southern matron of the New Orleans Garden District, mother of the late Sebastian Venable. She is an aging woman of fading beauty, with light orange or pink hair. She wears a lavender lace dress and has a starfish of diamonds pinned over her “withered bosom.” She has devoted her life to her late son, even refusing to return to her critically ill husband so that she could stay with her son and keep him from becoming a Buddhist monk. She and her son traveled every summer, and with her encouragement he wrote one poem each summer....
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