Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Ray Lawler
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Naturalism
- Time of Work: December, 1952, to January, 1953, during the five-month layoff season for sugarcane workers
- Setting: Australia
- Genres: Naturalistic literature, Drama
- Subjects: 1950’s, Friendship, Truth, Working class, Success or failure, Hallucinations or illusions, Machismo, Australia or Australians
- Locales: Australia
Characters Discussed
Olive Leech, a thirty-seven-year-old barmaid at the same hotel as Pearl. She is cynical but has an “eagerness that properly belongs to extreme youth.” She appears to have no frustrations about her dull job and seems to take life as it comes. In adjusting to the unconventional relationship she has with a man who comes to town for only five months out of every year, she has blocked off the other seven months of the year, becoming, as she realizes, “blind to what I want to be.” A chance to change the situation with a more conventional arrangement...
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