Noon Wine

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Noon Wine is a novella by American author Katherine Anne Porter that explores moral ambiguity and tragedy on a Texas dairy farm in the late 19th century.

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instanceOf novella
adaptation Noon Wine (1966 television film)
Noon Wine (1985 television film)
adaptationDirector Michael Fields
Sam Peckinpah
adaptationStar Fred Astaire
Jason Robards
Lloyd Bridges
Olivia de Havilland
adaptedFor television
author Katherine Anne Porter
centralTheme guilt
moral ambiguity
social judgment
tragedy
violence
countryOfOrigin United States
explores the destructive power of suspicion
the gap between legal innocence and moral responsibility
the impact of community opinion on individual fate
firstPublicationYear 1937
firstPublishedIn The Southern Review
genre Southern Gothic fiction
psychological fiction
tragedy
includedInCollection Pale Horse, Pale Rider
language English
literaryDevice foreshadowing
irony
unreliable perception of events
literaryMovement modernist literature
literarySignificance considered one of Katherine Anne Porter’s major works
majorCharacter Mr. Hatch
Mrs. Thompson
Olaf Helton
Royal Earle Thompson
narrativePerspective third-person narration
plotElement a mysterious Swedish farmhand transforms a failing Texas dairy farm
a violent confrontation leads to a killing in apparent self-defense
the community questions the protagonist’s motives
protagonist Royal Earle Thompson
publisherOfFirstBookEdition Harcourt, Brace and Company
settingEnvironment dairy farm
settingLocation Texas
settingTimePeriod late 19th century

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Katherine Anne Porter notableWork Noon Wine
subject linked to: Callie Russell Porter