Mary and Dick pay one of their monthly shopping visits to the local store. Mary fights down her childhood-old repugnance towards the store and everything it represents as she and Dick shop. Later, she idly flips through a pamphlet about raising bees as she listens to one of Dick's neighbors teasing him, with something like contempt in his voice, about whether he's having a good or bad year. She listens with more attention as Dick tells him, with a false pleasure in his voice, that the year has been good, and listens as he later swears with what seems like unreasonable anger after accidentally bumping his knee. As they drive back to the farm, Mary considers the neighbor's attitude, Dick's answer, and her own hitherto unquestioned belief that Dick was a good farmer.
Back.....
This is a free excerpt of 135 words. This section contains 1,235 words. This
study guide contains 21,904 words (approx. 73 pages at 300
words per page).
Read the rest of this Literature Guide with our The Grass Is Singing Access Pass.
