The narrator who looks back on their life from adulthood in Berlin.
The story mirrors the family's journey from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to the rise and fall of the Detroit auto industry. Major Characters Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Pdf
Cal’s brother, nicknamed after the bankruptcy code because of his perceived impact on the family business. Study Resources The narrator who looks back on their life
Cal’s grandparents who flee Smyrna for Detroit, carrying the recessive gene that eventually manifests in Cal. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Pdf
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The "5-alpha-reductase deficiency" that affects Cal is traced back through three generations of the Stephanides family, starting with a secret incestuous relationship in a Greek village.
