What I’m Going to Do, I Think (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Larry Woiwode
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1964
- Setting: Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Pyramid Bluffs, Michigan (littoral northwestern Michigan); and Chicago, Illinois
- Principal Characters: Christofer (Chris) Van Eenanam, Ellen Sidone Anne Strohe Van Eenanam, Aloysius James Strohe, Grandma Strohe, Orin Clausen, Anna Clausen
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s
- Locales: Chicago, IL
The Novel
Because the author’s emphasis is mainly on what happens within his characters, particularly within Chris and Ellen, the external action is compact, told partly through flashbacks and cyclical repetition of certain facts or incidents. Toward the end of his undergraduate days in Madison, Wisconsin, while at a party, Chris meets Ellen, whom he finds intelligent, disturbed, withdrawn, and deeply affecting. Beginning turbulently and evoking mixed feelings, the relationship continues for three years, including a one-year hiatus, which Ellen spends on her own in New York,...
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