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Tight White Collar | Characters

Grace Metalious's characters usually develop along fairly predictable lines, and Tight White Collar offers few surprises, unlike those from No Adam in Eden (1963; see separate entry). Chris Pappas is virile and attracts Lisa, his wife, because of his animal sexuality. Nathaniel Cooper is gentle and patient and long suffering when his wife Margery, a displaced Southerner, sacrifices her life to their mongoloid daughter. Anthony, a distant Cooper relative, returns to his ancestral house dying of some mysterious disease. He is an artist figure but one much jaded and warped by...

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