The Wapshot Chronicle | Characters
In establishing St. Botolphs and its inhabitants, Cheever has assembled a unique and engaging assortment of eccentrics to serve the thematic purposes of the novel. Clearly the hero of The Wapshot Chronicle is Leander Wapshot, patriarch of the family and unfaltering proponent of tradition. Descended from generations of God-fearing Wapshot men drawn to the sea, Leander is unceremoniously reduced to ferrying passengers across the bay from St. Botolphs to Nangasakit; that is, until an inopportune storm enables his wife Sarah to turn the foundered S.S. Topaze into "The Only...
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