Of Human Conditions

An Oedipus Complex had plagued Maynard (Manny) Mayhew, born in the early part of the twentieth century in Buntingford, Hertfordshire, England. Growing up as a motherless child, his schooling and upbringing in the tradition of the English Upper Class had afforded him a contemporary career, but he drifted in a friendless existence because of his inability to overcome an inescapable bondage and an all-consuming love for the mother he had never known. In the end, he found himself engaged in attempts to open up to an ambitious but disoriented Elsie Mortimer, with shadowy consequences.