Poor Fern is a young lady and a high school teacher, not much older than her own students, and that means she is tempted by her own students, especially Cy Bogart, and at a dance, she can't help herself, and the two become involved. Erik is also Swedish, and the two are quickly discovered. Oddly, Carol doesn't succeed in making a relationship between her and Guy, but she does find an affair with Erik Valborg instead. This character is a lawyer, and he helps us to understand Carol, because she finds herself very attracted to Guy, a liberal person who also is tired of small town life. Bea SorensonĪ free-thinking person and an ethnic Swede, Bea becomes the victim of the town's vicious judgment after the tragic death of his wife and child. Kennicott's natural authority in the small town attracted Carol to him, but he turns out to be more conservative than she originally hoped for, and he often criticizes her for her curious and spunky attitude. The novel mainly concerns her relationship to small town characters. Written by people who wish to remain anonymousĪ midwesterner and a librarian by trade, Carol's story takes her to a miserable small-town life, away from her more liberal life in St. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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