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The first novel is narrated by the eighty-year-old George Plumb, not in chronological order but by looking back through his own memories, and covering the 1890s to the 1940s.
Aug 6, 2024 · [Plumb] is narrated in the first person and tells the story of George Plumb, lawyer, parson and ex-parson who places conscience before career and suffers an unhappy life. Gee...
Jan 1, 1978 · The narrator, George Plumb, is a Presbyterian minister who in the early sections of the book struggles to align his socialist and pacifist views with the teachings of the church at that time. He has a high-minded mission to do moral good during his life, while treating others, especially his family, with judgement and coldness.
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relationship with the narrator, he sees the first-person as a straightforward way of allowing the reader to identify with the central character, or "hero" of the novel or short story.
Gee’s first novel, The Big Season, was published in 1962. Reviewers throughout his career have praised the spare elegance of his prose 16 but struggle with the complicated, sometimes violent price of trying to do the right thing. 17
The first novel is narrated by the eighty-year-old George Plumb, not in chronological order but by looking back through his own memories, and covering the 1890s to the 1940s.
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The narrative structure and style of Plumb are suited to its narrator, a man of education, who is capable of great insight and of great blindness. In the course of this study I will examine the structure and style of Plumb, as well as the nature of Plumb himself, as character, narrator and artist.
