The Studs Lonigan Trilogy Characters

This Study Guide consists of approximately 11 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Studs Lonigan Trilogy.

The Studs Lonigan Trilogy Characters

This Study Guide consists of approximately 11 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Studs Lonigan Trilogy.
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Studs Lonigan, of all Farrell's characters, is perhaps the most fully alive, the most fully realized, primarily because he is a character built on internal contradictions. From the first, he demonstrates the conflict between his desire to be tough and his attraction toward the softer side of his nature. As a thirteen-year-old, hiding in the bathroom to smoke and feel tough, he thinks of Lucy Scanlon, who is already, and will remain, both his ideal of womanhood and a symbol of his aspirations. All his dreams of success include her, and many of them absolutely depend on her. But early in Young Lonigan (1932), Studs thinks of her, of a time when he had walked her home from school, and his reaction illustrates the inner war he fights, and loses: "He wanted to stand there, and think about Lucy, wondering if he would ever have days with her like...

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