The Yearling (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- First Published: 1938
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1870 and 1871
- Setting: Florida
- Principal Characters: Jody Baxter, Penny Baxter, Ora Baxter, Fodder-Wing Forrester, Oliver Hutto, Grandma Hutto, Twink Weatherby, Flag, Doc Wilson
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism, Regional fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Gender roles, Nature, Nineteenth century, Friendship, Poverty or poor people, Farms, farmers, or farming, Death or dying, Revenge, Loyalty, Florida, Hunting or hunters, Bears, Deer, Arson
- Locales: Florida
Form and Content
The Yearling is an initiatory tale in which an innocent and happy twelve-year-old boy passes into young adulthood. Some of his youthful illusions are shattered by the end of the year in his life that the book chronicles, but Jody emerges with a substantial hold on the adulthood that stretches ahead of him.
Jody Baxter lives in the scrubby inland country of central Florida not far south of the Georgia line, the area out of Gainesville in which Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings herself lived intermittently. He is the only child of Penny and Ora Baxter, two...
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