Terms of Endearment | Literary Precedents
Terms of Endearment is in the tradition of the modern regional novel. It defines the twentieth-century Texas urban setting in a way that recalls Dreiser's Chicago setting of Sister Carrie (1900); Edna Ferber's Giant (1950) is also a precursor that is specifically Texan.
Another literary precedent can be identified as those novels whose action revolves around the relationship between a parent and child. McMurtry examines the traditional elements of conflict between mother and daughter as well as the strong tove and loyalty that transcends all other bonds that...
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