FULL TITLE · A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
AUTHOR · Betty Smith
TYPE OF WORK · Novel
GENRE · Bildungsroman (novel about the moral development of the main character); a coming of age novel
LANGUAGE · English
TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN · Chapel Hill, North Carolina, early 1940's
DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION · 1943
PUBLISHER · Harper & Brothers
NARRATOR · Omniscient
CLIMAX · Sergeant McShane asks Katie Nolan to marry him.
PROTAGONIST · Francie Nolan
ANTAGONIST · Poverty
SETTING (TIME) · Between 1900 and 1918
SETTING (PLACE) · Williamsburg, Brooklyn
POINT OF VIEW · Omniscient
FALLING ACTION · The Nolans move out of their home and get ready for the wedding. Francie says good-bye to Brooklyn before she leaves for college.
TENSE · Past
