The Third Life of Grange Copeland (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Walker
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Family
- Time of Work: 1920 to the early 1960’s
- Setting: Georgia and New York City
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Family literature
- Subjects: African Americans, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Racism, Suicide, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, New York City, Domestic violence, Georgia, Farms, farmers, or farming
- Locales: New York, NY, Georgia
Characters Discussed
Grange Copeland, the protagonist, a black sharecropper in Georgia. A tall, gaunt man who has worked hard all of his life, Grange is poor, ignorant, and in debt to the white plantation owner. He abuses his wife and son in response to his own powerlessness and eventually abandons them to try his luck in the North. While living in Harlem, he attacks racism, rather than merely reacting to it as he had done in Georgia. He realizes that he cannot succeed in a one-man attack on racial discrimination and returns to Georgia. On his return, he marries his longtime...
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