John Shawnessy

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John Shawnessy is the idealistic Midwestern schoolteacher and Civil War veteran whose life, loves, and disillusionments form the central narrative of Ross Lockridge Jr.’s novel "Raintree County."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
appearsIn Raintree County
associatedWith Garwood Jones
Nell Gaither
Raintree County myth of the golden tree
Susanna Drake
characterRole protagonist
conflict American Civil War
createdBy Ross Lockridge Jr.
educationRole teacher in a Midwestern town
fictionalLocation Raintree County, Indiana
firstAppearance Raintree County (1948 novel)
linked to: Raintree County
gender male
lifeEvent experiences romantic relationships
participates in the Civil War
suffers personal and ideological disillusionment
literaryMovement American modernist epic novel
militaryService Union Army veteran
narrativeFunction central character
nationality American
occupation poet
schoolteacher
personalityTrait idealistic
settingPeriod 19th-century United States
symbolicRole embodies the passage of American history through one life
represents the conscience of Raintree County
themeAssociation American Dream
disillusionment
love and loss
memory and time

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Raintree County leadCharacter John Shawnessy