One of five sons in a family who presents the image of success but is without funds. Fascinated with what Plato calls telestic madness, Dionysus (who is also known as Bacchus in Greek history) and the lives of his friends, Henry is the leader of the group.Įdmund “Bunny” Corcoran, the 24-year old son of a Clemson football player turned banker and interior decorator. Henry Winters, an eccentric tall and secretive student who lives off a trust fund. A bright but naive young man who is able to attend Hampden because of a scholarship. Richard Papen, a 20-year old junior who transferred to Hampden College after studying Ancient Greek at a local college in California, where he grew up. Published in 1992, 41 years after Catcher in the Rye, The Secret History tells the story of six young adults at a liberal arts college (the fictional Hampden College in Vermont – not unlike the college Tartt attended: Bennington College in Vermont): Salinger revealed the tortured soul of a teenager in an exclusive private school in Catcher in the Rye, it is Donna Tartt who opens our eyes to young adulthood when she takes the reader into the underworld of a small liberal arts college in The Secret History. Everything, somehow, fit together some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees …. but I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t know what else to say except that life itself seemed very magical in those days: a web of symbol, coincidence, premonition, omen.
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