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Farish is wearing a cowboy hat when Hely sees him shooting at people
I still can't quite believe that it was Ida, but I think there are references to this in the Prologue.
The prologue states that the family dinner took place on Sunday. The weather was pre-stormy (later Harriet read in scraps of newspapers that it was raining that day). Also, at the very beginning of Chapter 7, Harriet thinks about the cracks due to Ida's departure and the days of the week where there was a "wash on Mondays." That is, washing on Mondays was so commonplace that it continued unchanged for many years, and in the prologue we see that Ida "decided that, perhaps, it is possible to start the planned on Monday wash, every now and then went out into the street - to hang up the laundry". "But fatigue, fatal fatigue in that day piled up on Ida, because she had to look after the guests, and look after the stove, and even the baby, and her mood was already worse".
But the laundry was on Mondays, why was it necessary to start it on Sunday, in such a commotion (family dinner), and even in case of probable rain? To distract everyone? Or to hide the view in the yard?
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I still can't quite believe that it was Ida, but I think there are references to this in the Prologue.The prologue states that the family dinner took place on Sunday. The weather was pre-stormy (later Harriet read in scraps of newspapers that it was raining that day). Also, at the very beginning of Chapter 7, Harriet thinks about the cracks due to Ida's departure and the days of the week where there was a "wash on Mondays." That is, washing on Mondays was so commonplace that it continued unchanged for many years, and in the prologue we see that Ida "decided that, perhaps, it is possible to start the planned on Monday wash, every now and then went out into the street - to hang up the laundry". "But fatigue, fatal fatigue in that day piled up on Ida, because she had to look after the guests, and look after the stove, and even the baby, and her mood was already worse".
But the laundry was on Mondays, why was it necessary to start it on Sunday, in such a commotion (family dinner), and even in case of probable rain? To distract everyone? Or to hide the view in the yard?
