The Torrents of Spring (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: Novella
- Type of Plot: Parody
- Time of Work: The early 1920’s
- Setting: Rural Michigan
- Genres: Long fiction, Farce, Parody
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Literature, Midwest, 1920’s, Native Americans or American Indians, Wit or humor, Small-town life, Michigan
- Locales: Michigan
Characters Discussed
Scripps O’Neil, who claims to have published two stories in The Dial and one in The Saturday Evening Post. He also claims to be a Harvard man. O’Neil is tall and lean. Deserted by his wife and daughter Lucy in Mancelona, Michigan, O’Neil wanders down the railroad tracks to Petoskey and goes to work in the pump factory as a piston-collarer. It is mentioned that his father was a great composer, that his mother is from Florence, Italy, and that he and his mother had to beg from door to door in Chicago when Scripps was a boy, but much of...
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