Carson McCullers' The Member Of The Wedding: Summary
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The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers is the story of an
adolescent girl who triumphs over loneliness and gains maturity through an
identity that she creates for herself in her mind. It is with this guise that
twelve year old Frankie Addams begins to feel confident about herself and life. ....
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.... brother's new family and becomes infatuated
with the idea that she will leave Georgia and live with Jarvis and Janice in
Winter Hill. In her scheme to be part of this new unit, she dubs herself F.
Jasmine so that she and the wedding couple will all have names beginning with
the letters J and a. Her positive thinking induces a euphoria which
contributes to a rejection of the old feeling that "the old Frankie had no we
to claim.... Now all this was suddenly over with and changed. There was he ....
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Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
