Other Voices, Other Rooms Themes

In Other Voices, Other Rooms, as in any good work of Southern Gothic literature, the supernatural has a big role. There are powers at work beyond what is visible to the naked eye: the devil, God, a...

The main character of Truman Capote's coming-of-age novel Other Voices, Other Rooms, Joel Knox Harrison, is thirteen when all of the book's events take place. This means he's teetering in between c...

As with the supernatural, a novel just wouldn't be Southern Gothic if it doesn't have a few deaths in it. And Other Voices, Other Rooms is chock full of mortality. From Joel's mother to the servant...

The protagonist of Other Voices, Other Rooms, Joel Knox Harrison, is an orphaned boy who is sent to live with a strange group of semi-family members in the middle of nowhere, after having spent mos...

Our main character, Joel, is quite the whopper-teller in Other Voices, Other Rooms. It doesn't really seem all that bad though; he just seems to be sort of childish, as though his lies were a bad h...

Even though Other Voices, Other Rooms was written in the 1940s, the legacy of slavery in the Deep South can still be seen on almost every page. The old plantation where the novel takes place still...

If gender studies are your bag, then have we got a novel for you! Other Voices, Other Rooms is an exhilarating, gender-bending extravaganza. There are tomboys who will fight anyone who treats them...

It really isn't that surprising that a group of people living on an old, decaying plantation might be just a little bit obsessed with the past. Their glory days are long behind them; in fact, they...