Ten North Frederick (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John O’Hara
- First Published: 1955
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: 1945, with flashbacks to the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries
- Setting: Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, and New York City
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism
- Subjects: Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Sex or sexuality, New York City, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Upper classes, Politicians
- Locales: New York, NY, Pennsylvania, Gibbsville, PA
Characters Discussed
Joseph Benjamin (Joe) Chapin, a right- minded snob, born into one of the wealthiest and most socially prominent families of Gibbsville, Pennsylvania. Joe is an only child, dominated by his mother, Charlotte, who has become cold to his father after two miscarriages. Joe has a strong sense of his place in Gibbsville and returns there after attending Yale. With his closest friend, Arthur McHenry, he builds a law practice and establishes a reputation for propriety and discretion. Haunted by the death of Marie Harrison, with whom he had a brief affair while in...
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