Tobacco Road (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Jack Kirkland
- First Published: 1934
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The early 1930’s
- Setting: Rural Georgia
- Genres: Social realism
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality
- Locales: Georgia
Characters Discussed
Jeeter Lester, a shiftless, starving tobacco farmer living in rural Georgia. He resides in a ramshackle cabin that was once part of a prosperous homestead. The land has since been depleted by generations of tobacco plantings followed by cotton crops. Jeeter has an obsession with the soil, and every spring he promises to plant a cotton crop but somehow never gets around to it. The economic effects of the Depression in the South are too great for him to overcome. He refuses to leave his beloved land to work elsewhere. He says of his plight, “City ways...
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