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Sara Monday
fictional character
Sara Monday, fictional character, the protagonist and narrator in Joyce Cary’s novel Herself Surprised (1941), the first volume of his trilogy on art. Monday is presented as a warmhearted, generous woman who is victimized by the men in her life—the conservative upper-class lawyer Tom Wilcher and the artist and rebel Gulley Jimson.
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