Date of Award
7-8-1987
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
English
First Advisor
William L. Frank, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Michael Lund, Ph.D.
Third Advisor
Donald C. Stuart, III, Ph. D.
Abstract
This thesis studies Mark Twain’s uses of suffering in the writer character reader triad. In the book Huckleberry Finn, Twain himself seems to identify more closely with Huck than he does with Tom, as evidenced by the first person narrative in Finn and the more serious, more carefully developed autobiographical incidents in that book. Perhaps because Twain’s later life was so bleak and unhappy, he poured all of his self-defeat and pessimism into his thoughts for Huck’s old age.
Recommended Citation
Grant, Virginia Armiger, "MARK TWAIN'S USES OF SUFFERING IN THE WRITER-CHARACTER-READER TRIAD" (1987). Theses & Honors Papers. 326.
https://digitalcommons.longwood.edu/etd/326
