SOURCE: Duncan, Todd. “Scene and Life Cycle in Ernest Gaines' Bloodline.” Callaloo 1, no. 3 (May 1978): 85-101.
In the following essay, Duncan examines the way Gaines depicts the process of maturation and aging in Bloodline, comparing events in the stories to the eight life-cycle stages theorized by psychoanalyst Erik Erikson.
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