59 pages • 1 hour read
Diana GabaldonA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Content Warning: This Character Analysis section contains references to rape, sexual assault, and pregnancy loss.
Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser is the primary protagonist of this novel. She is a fierce, independent woman who is smart and knowledgeable, surviving in a time vastly different from her own. She is a nurse, and this knowledge allows her to help people who do not have the advantages of modern medicine. Claire does not have the ability to care for herself when she goes into pre-term labor and loses her first child, Faith. In her grief, Claire turns on the one man she has given up everything to be with, the one man she loves most passionately. Ironically, the reason she blames Jamie for the death of her child is because he entered a duel with Jack Randall, Frank’s ancestor, after she asked him to wait until Jack’s child was conceived to ensure Jack’s lineage and Frank’s existence.
Claire struggles throughout the novel within a Love Triangle. Her love for Jamie is passionate. Her love for Frank is quieter, more of a companionship than a romance. When she returns 1948, she tries to leave Frank because of the scandal of her pregnancy, but he refuses.
By Diana Gabaldon
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Diana Gabaldon
An Echo in the Bone
An Echo in the Bone
Diana Gabaldon
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
Diana Gabaldon
Outlander
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Diana Gabaldon
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection
View Collection