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Taylor Greer sets out to leave home, Kentucky, and travel west, and finds herself in Oklahoma near Cherokee territory. As Taylor stops in the town, a woman suddenly approaches, deposits a small child, and leaves without explanation.
Taylor Greer is gutsy and practical. She views her hometown as stifling and tiny, and she decides she wants to avoid the trap of an early pregnancy and make her escape to a more interesting life. Taylor’s spirited, quirky voice shapes the novel.
Character Analysis. A Self-Made (or Self-Named) Kinda Gal. The Bean Trees ' plucky protagonist may have been born Marietta Greer, but when she sets out on her own from her rural Kentucky home, she decides to get herself a new name.
Taylor narrates The Bean Trees in the first person, except for two chapters. Chapters two and four are told from a third-person limited perspective, focusing on Lou Ann until she meets...
1 Δεκ 1988 · By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity for putting down roots.
Taylor Greer, the protagonist and narrator. Born and reared in rural Pittman, Kentucky, she vows not to get pregnant and live the rest of her life in Pittman. After graduating from high school...
Taylor Greer. The protagonist of The Bean Trees, Taylor Greer was given the name Marietta at birth, although her mother nicknamed her “missy” because of her precocious self-confidence. She’s described as appearing white, although her mother tells her that they have distant Cherokee ancestry and could claim the right to be counted in the tribe.
