The Widower's Tale - Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 Summary & Analysis

Julia Glass
This Study Guide consists of approximately 34 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Widower's Tale.

The Widower's Tale - Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 Summary & Analysis

Julia Glass
This Study Guide consists of approximately 34 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Widower's Tale.
This section contains 1,686 words
(approx. 5 pages at 400 words per page)
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Summary

Percy Darling has donated the barn on his Matlock, Massachusetts, property to the Elves and Fairies preschool which has been refurbished. The donation was made in exchange for a job for his divorced and unsettled daughter, Clover, whose two children live with their father in New York City. Percy is especially fond of his grandson, Robert, a student at Harvard. Robert is the son of Percy's other daughter, Trudy, an oncologist who works in Boston. Robert visits Percy frequently and helps him adapt to new technology so that Percy can send email and browse on his laptop.

Clover browses the newspaper and tells Percy about some vandalism in which a local car was filled with corn husks and a big sign glued to the windshield hawking the use of ethanol. Clover asks Percy if the preschool can build a tree house in a...

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This section contains 1,686 words
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