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Edwin Rolfe

Edwin Rolfe was the son of Russian immigrants, was born in Philadelphia in 1909. His father, a shoemaker, was an active trade unionist and a member of the Socialist Party of America. His mother was an advocate of women's rights.

As a teenager Rolfe joined the American Communist Party and was soon contributing cartoons, poems and book reviews to the party newspaper. He also published his first book of poems, To My Contemporaries.

In 1937 Rolfe joined the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, a unit that volunteered to fight for the Spanish government during the Spanish Civil War. Despite his protests, Rolfe was removed from combat assignments and became editor of the brigade newspaper Volunteer for Liberty. Rolfe arrived back in the United States in January 1939. Later that year he published a history of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion: The Lincoln Battalion in 1939.

After World War II, the Cold War began with the Soviet Union and the red scare began. A blacklist was drawn up of writers, directors and performers who had been members of the American Communist Party, including Edwin Rolfe.

Rolfe became active in the struggle against McCarthyism and wrote a series of anti-McCarthy poems. Edwin Rolfe died of a heart attack on May 25, 1954. He was 45.

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Chracter Anaylsis-Edmund from A Secret History

Edmund "Bunny" Corcoran is the student who is murdered by the group. Corcoran pretends to be one who has a high school standing and a great deal of personal wealth, although he survives by mooching off friends, particularly Richard. It is Richard's opinion that Bunny's family has made a lifelong commitment on mooching off of others. Corcoran's parents have taught him that it is far better to mooch than work, and unfortunately for Richard who often picks up the tab.
Edmund is loud and arrogant, yet people tend to like him for his color presence. Throughout the story, Corcoran seals his fate when he begins to mock the group after the first murder, constantly talking about it, and eventually blackmailing the rest of the group. The group gets paranoid that Bunny will be overheard tell someone about the murder, and consequently decide that their friend must die.

The Secret History-Greek Theme

One of the main themes in The Secret History is the study of Ancient Greek. This includes the language, heriage, literature, and practices of the ancients. The class takes the subjects very seriously and is encouraged to explore every aspect of the culture by Proffesor Jullian Morrow. Professor Morrow is said to be the foremost authority of Ancient Greek studies on the east coast, and possibly further. His secretive methods almost turn the class into a type of cult. No one outside the class is permitted into Morrow's office or classroom.
There are a great number of Greek refreences, literature, chracters, and language throughout the book. One of the most important refrences to the practices of the ancients is the Bacchanal rite held at the country house. The ancients knew a great deal about various drugs, poisons and altered states and claimed to be able to use these things in order to achieve a highly-conscious state in which they could see and commune with Dionysus, Greek god of wine and inspirer of ritual madness.

A Secret History by Donna Tartt

Richard Papen, a vaguely unhappy young man from California, decides on a whim to apply for Hampden College in Vermont. When he arrives, he notices a group of five eccentric students, Classic majors, who seem completely separate from the rest of the college. Because he has studied Greek for two years already, Richard is tempted to join them. Although he is told by Jullian, the professor who is the head of the Classics department, selects his students by methods nobody can quite figure out. But Richard does end up joining the circle.
We are told in the prologue of The Secret History there has been a murder-a student named Edmund also known as Bunny is dead. We are told who is responsible for his death, so the who did it is never the mystery. But the mystery is why they did it; which is why The Secret History is unique in that the mystery is about the exact circumstances that led to the murder. Which is why I believe that The Secret History won't disappoint.