Short Fiction · Character
Samuel Meredith
A young man of wealth and good name, Samuel Meredith uses silence and his own true emotion as weapons to bully a guilty woman into despair.
major
Also known as Sammy, Samuel, young Samuel
First appearance: the freshest boy
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Protagonist who undergoes moral transformation through four physical confrontations.
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Samuel Meredith moves through a world of luncheons, chaise-longues, and family names that carry weight, and he treats the reputations of his relatives as his own property to defend. He corners Edna over a scandal,…
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Relationship types
- Other
Character groups
- Love and obsession
- Southern social drama
- Reverse aging and identity
- Social climbers and romantics
- Protagonist
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- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
Val reaches his emotional and psychological peak in this passage as he confronts the painful gap between his r…
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