Unnamed Girl in a Book
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Unnamed Girl in a Book
Race:
White
Gender:
Female
Class:
Indeterminable
Rank:
Peripheral
Vitality:
Alive
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Biography:
The fictional character to whom Temple compares her own experience overcoming trauma. Although Faulkner blurs the details, saying that the book in which this woman appears was written by "somebody - Hemingway, wasn't it?" (121), it's very likely that Temple is thinking of Maria, a character in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. According to Temple's account, this character freed herself from the past by "refusing to accept it" (121).
Ontological Status:
Literary/Mythic/Biblical
Individual or Group:
Individual
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