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An Elaborate Pretense for the Major: Making Up the Face of the Postbellum Nation

Major (1883) is also a tale of voluntary amnesia stemming from a reluctance to face particular facts about the postbellum United States. Though the novella speaks only sparingly of the American Civil War, it addresses some of the scars left in its wake, particularly those involv ing women's social position, racial passing, and a fear of the postwar new order. The novella's Major and Madam Carroll are the figureheads of the North Carolina mountain town of Far Edgerley, where much of Marion Carroll's time and energy is spent helping her ailing husband keep up appearances by hiding the effects of his increasing dementia. While her efforts to spare the Major's feelings suggest love and devotion, the behavior simultaneously bespeaks a desire to maintain a life that is no longer true, a desire the entire town shares and that causes the rest