Summer and Smoke (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Tennessee Williams
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: c. the early 1900’s and 1916
- Setting: Glorious Hill, Mississippi
- Genres: Drama
- Subjects: Values
- Locales: Glorious Hill, MS
Characters Discussed
Alma Winemiller, the daughter of a minister in Glorious Hill, a small town in Mississippi. In the prologue, she and John Buchanan are shown as children at a fountain of Eternity in the town in the early years of the twentieth century. The scene shows their pattern as children to foreshadow their pattern as adults: attracted to each other but unable to achieve true communication because she is sensitive and primarily spiritual (as she says, Alma means soul) and he, though capable of a degree of sensitivity, is primarily physical. He is thus representative,...
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