Plainsong by kent haruf character analysis
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Plainsong
57 pages • 1 hour read
Kent Haruf
Kent Haruf
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999
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Character Analysis
Tom Guthrie
Guthrie is a high school history teacher whose life is in the process of falling apart.
Plainsong by kent haruf character analysis
As his wife sinks into an all-consuming depression, he does not know how to talk to his two boys, and his class is disrupted by an arrogant student whose failure is set to cause issues. Despite this, Guthrie finds redemption through the course of the novel.
He begins to date Maggie; he experiences difficult emotional moments which bring him closer to his children; and he learns to put aside the thoughts of his career and understand the importance of happiness over everything else.
In the final chapter, he admits that he hasn’t “made up my mind” (254) as