Short Fiction · Character
La Folle
A woman who has lived in isolation across the bayou for years, feared and avoided, until one morning she crosses the water and walks toward the great house at Bellissime.
supporting
Also known as Folle
First appearance: Beyond the Bayou
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La Folle has made her cabin on the far side of the bayou and kept to it, a figure the neighboring cabins' voices pursue but never reach. One dawn she drinks her strong black coffee, crosses the water with a long steady…
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Relationship types
- Other
Character groups
- Innocence and isolation
- Family secrets and hidden desires
- Legal and social struggles
- Romantic rivalry and courtship
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
This is the story's dramatic climax because Mrs. Mallard reaches the emotional and psychological peak of her e…
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See La Folle in Beyond the Bayou