![]() Ostracized by her peers yet too old for child’s play, Frankie spends most of her time with the family’s Black housekeeper, Berenice, and her six-year-old cousin, John Henry. Frankie feels desperately left out of everything-the social life of her peers, the goings-on of the town, the faraway war raging in other parts of the world, and especially her brother’s wedding. ![]() Its central focus falls on the shifting emotions of twelve-year-old Frankie Addams, a precocious, sensitive, gangly girl in the midst of a summer of boredom and loneliness in a small Georgia mill town. Like her first novel, The Member of the Wedding (1946) evokes the solitude and uncertainty of a young outcast in the Deep South. ![]() Carson McCullers Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Characters and Plot ![]()
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