A character analysis of Lydia McQueen and what she represents in the 1966 novel The Tall Woman by Wilma Dykeman are discussed in five pages.
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mountain spring, and "the gumption" to fight to have a school built for their children. BBwellFN.doc THE TALL WOMAN (1966) Wilma Dykeman Written by B. Bryan
Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., January 2001 Introduction Lydia McQueen, the major character of Wilma Dykemans 1966 novel, The Tall Woman is the embodiment of a paradox:
of harder times in history and simpler times of living in the rural south, when people had the time to cultivate and clean even the windblown leaves out of
their own mountain spring, and "the gumption" to fight to have a school built for their children. Setting The mountains of western North Carolina serve as the place.
The time factor centers around the life of a Mountain Woman living alone while her husband is involved in first the Civil War, and then the migration of Western Expansion.
Through much of the time in the back woods she is alone until the children arrive; and then she and the children are alone as well, backed into one
of the tall mountains, that has its own clear spring. She talks of the spring to a visitor, who has come to tell her of an opponent to her desire
to build a school for her own children., as well as the other children in the community. (He has) "The power of a rock. But, theres
something stronger than rock. You see that ledge over my spring? Ive seen it cracked by the stem of a little vine that had to come up
to sunlight through it. Theres nothing strong enough to stop for long the strength of growing things. And children are stouter than any vines" (176). Characters Although our