Their affair is revealed, as well as Leonora's strong bond with her horse Firebird. Penderton's wife Leonora prepares to go horseback riding with Lt. Major Penderton assigns Private Williams to clear some foliage at his private officer's quarters instead of his usual duty of maintaining the horses and stables. Other central characters are Lieutenant Colonel Morris Langdon and his depressed wife Alison, the Langdons' houseboy Anacleto, and Private Ellgee Williams. Army post in the South in the late 1940s, it features Major Weldon Penderton and his wife Leonora.
The film tells of six central characters, their failures, obsessions and darkest desires. The film stars Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando. It deals with elements of repressed sexuality, both homosexual and heterosexual, as well as voyeurism and murder. Perhaps if I trace and preserve for other generations the effect this success had on me it will affect future artists to accept it better.Reflections in a Golden Eye is a 1967 American drama film directed by John Huston and based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Carson McCullers. That, combined with all my illnesses, nearly destroyed me. I became an established literary figure overnight, and I was much too young to understand what happened to me, or the responsibility it entailed. "I think it is important for future generations of students to know why I did certain things, but it is also important for myself. When the author was interviewed by Rex Reed on her final birthday, McCullers revealed her reason for writing an autobiography: Looking back over her life from a precocious childhood in Georgia to her painful decline from a series of crippling strokes, McCullers offers poignant and unabashed remembrances of her early writing success, her family attachments, a troubled marriage to a failed writer, friendships with literary and film luminaries (Gypsy Rose Lee, Richard Wright, Isak Dinesen, John Huston, Marilyn Monroe), and her intense relationships with the important women in her life. Dews has faithfully brought her story back to life, complete with never-before-published letters between McCullers and her husband Reeves, and an outline of her most famous novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. McCullers-one of the most gifted writers of her generation-died of a stroke at the age of 50 before finishing this, her last manuscript.
Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers (2002)
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