is baffled at why Ethan and Mattie were sledding when they should have been on the road to the train station, comments that she does not know Zeena's thoughts, at the time of the accident or now. She adds that no one does. This applies to the reader, too: the narrator never lets ...
I believe the whole idea here is a nod to the past; it’s important to take inspiration from that, to capture the essence of the house. But I’m not a literalist in terms of preservation; I’m not trying to be completely historically accurate. We’ll take the best parts of history ...
but he never got into the fight. He tended the family farm for a bit and then went into business as part owner of an iron furnace. He also dabbled in philosophy and, randomly, was kicked out of Northampton, Massachusetts; no one really knows...