The Watchmaker of Everton (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Georges Simenon
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The mid-1950’s
- Setting: Everton and elsewhere in New York State, and various locations in the East and Midwest
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Family or family life, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Crime or criminals, Guilt, Dreams, Fathers, Creative process, Ethics, Life, philosophy of, Happiness
- Locales: New York, Midwest (U.S.), Everton, NY
Characters Discussed
Dave Galloway, a watchmaker and repairer with his own small shop in Everton, New York. He is the novel’s center of consciousness. Forty-three years old, a good citizen, and an ordinary, happy man not much given to reflection, at the opening of the novel Dave has still to learn the “secret in men” which he hopes to communicate at the novel’s close to the grandson who will shortly be born to his imprisoned son. The alienation and purposelessness of the modern hero are registered in the details of his drab small-town existence: his lack of friends, his...
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