The Wapshot Scandal (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Cheever
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social satire
- Time of Work: Early 1960’s
- Setting: St. Botolphs, Massachusetts; Proxmire Manor, a Westchester suburb; and Talifer, site of a missile research base
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s
- Locales: Rome, Italy
Characters Discussed
Coverly Wapshot, who is younger and seemingly less agreeable and promising than his brother Moses. He is also “a model of provincial virtues” and as such seems both naïve and strangely noble. He is twenty-eight years old and lives in Talifer with his wife and son. Although trained as a computer taper, he has been assigned to the public relations department at the Talifer missile site and research center. When his marriage begins to sour, he develops the habit of “talking like a Chinese fortune cookie” and pretending that nothing unpleasant has...
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