Middlesex
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Plot Summary
Detailed Summary & Analysis
Book 1: The Silver Spoon Book 1: Matchmaking Book 1: An Immodest Proposal Book 1: The Silk Road Book 2: Henry Ford’s English-Language Melting Pot Book 2: Minotaurs Book 2: Marriage on Ice Book 2: Tricknology Book 2: Clarinet Serenade Book 2: News of the World Book 2: Ex Ovo Omnia Book 3: Home Movies Book 3: Opa! Book 3: Middlesex Book 3: The Mediterranean Diet Book 3: The Wolverette Book 3: Waxing Lyrical Book 3: The Obscure Object Book 3: Tiresias in Love Book 3: Flesh and Blood Book 3: The Gun on the Wall Book 4: The Oracular Vulva Book 4: Looking Myself Up in Webster’s Book 4: Go West, Young Man Book 4: Gender Dysphoria in San Francisco Book 4: Hermaphroditus Book 4: Air-Ride Book 4: Last Stop
Themes
All Themes Rebirth vs. Continuity Ancestry, Inheritance, and Fate False Binaries Migration, Ethnicity, and the American Dream Secrets
Quotes
Characters
All Characters Cal/lie Stephanides Desdemona Stephanides Eleutherios “Lefty” Stephanides Milton (Militadies) Stephanides Theodora “Tessie” Stephanides Chapter Eleven Stephanides Sourmelina Zizmo Jimmy Zizmo a.k.a. Minister Fard Dr. Luce Dr. Nishan Philobosian Michael Antoniou (“Father Mike”) Zoë Antoniou (“Aunt Zo”) The Obscure Object Rex Reese Julie Kikuchi Zora
Symbols
All Symbols The Recessive Gene The Silkworm Box
Literary Devices
All Literary Devices Allegory Allusions Foreshadowing Genre Hyperbole Imagery Irony Metaphors Mood Motifs Paradox Personification Satire Setting Similes Situational Irony Style Tone
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Middlesex

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Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex Literary Devices

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