Reflections in a Golden Eye
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Reflections in a Golden Eye is a 1941 novel by Carson McCullers, her second after The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. It is set on an army post in the American South in peacetime. Captain Weldon Penderton, a repressed officer, becomes fixated on a young private, Ellgee Williams, who in turn secretly watches the captain's wife, Leonora. A short work of Southern Gothic fiction, it was adapted into a 1967 film directed by John Huston, starring Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor.
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