![]() ![]() The Captain then speaks to his wife, Leonora, who has been having an affair with their neighbor, Major Morris Langdon the Captain is aware of this. Though Penderton is furious at the Private for his inept work, he notices that his hatred is strangely intense: He does not understand that this emotion is desire. ![]() He is assigned to help an officer, Captain Weldon Penderton, clear out brush behind his house. Private Ellgee Williams, a soldier on base, keeps to himself and has no personal relationships. The novel opens by explaining that there was once a murder on a Southern army base at peacetime this novel tells the story of that murder and the people involved. This study guide cites the 2001 edition of McCullers: Complete Novels, published by the Library of America.Ĭontent warning: The source material features depictions of self-harm. Reflections in a Golden Eye shares themes with McCullers’s own life: She experienced chronic illness, and though she isn’t documented as having ever labeled her sexuality, she fell in love with (and openly pursued) women during an era of grave societal hostility toward such involvements. Her best-known works are The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940), The Member of the Wedding (1946), and The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951). ![]() McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1917 and died in Nyack, New York, in 1967. ![]()
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