Judge Fox Clane

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Judge Fox Clane is a prominent, aging Southern judge in Carson McCullers’ novel "Clock Without Hands," embodying the region’s entrenched racism, nostalgia, and resistance to social change.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
ageDescriptor aging
appearsIn Clock Without Hands NERFINISHED
appearsInGenre American novel
Southern Gothic literature
associatedWithTheme decline of traditional power structures
memory and nostalgia
racism
social change in the American South
createdBy Carson McCullers NERFINISHED
createdByFullName Lula Carson McCullers NERFINISHED
createdByNationality American author
embodies entrenched racism
nostalgia for the Old South
resistance to social change
fictionalStatus prominent Southern judge
firstPublicationContext Clock Without Hands (1961 novel) NERFINISHED
gender male
ideology racist worldview
segregationist attitudes
literaryFunction embodiment of Southern tradition
foil to forces of social change
medium prose fiction
narrativeRole major character in Clock Without Hands
nationality American
occupation judge
settingRegion American South NERFINISHED
symbolizes the declining Old South order
white Southern conservatism

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Clock Without Hands character Judge Fox Clane