He talks to the dead and makes up stories about them, like Blank Rodman who must be a relative. With the conversations he has with the made up soldiers he is conflicted about what to do with De Rosset because they ask him not to let him walk on their heads. Pomp: Negro servant, always proud of his masters trying to save face. Bettina: Owner of the house.
The waste of the south, angry/resentful. Very beautiful but badly affected by the war and trying to keep her head up she is dismissive of Rodman and she would rather he live with broke family than a better off Rodman. She cares too she went to the grave and it appears as if she was paying her respects. She remembers how the war took her family made her mother cry and made her family poor. Ward De Rosset: Crippled Confederate soldier very proud refered to as proud poverty.
Growth of technology and industry and mass immigration and a post civil war. Different cultures, new writers, new market for magazines and newspapers.
Breaks his art work because he doesn't think much of it. Struggles with what to do with the money. Deborah: Hugh's cousin. Housewife mentality, hunchback, wants constant affirmation. Walks in rain at night with little to no rest to bring Hugh food that he doesn't even want.
Clarke: The son of one of the mill owners. The first time he truly notices their faces. Doctor May: Town-physicians. Notices the face of the workers look like Dante's vision. Put on a fake smile to "talk to these people" Don't see them as equals. Does not care when he reads about it.
Hugh makes art in his spare time. Some important owners come and they kinds bougie. They see Hugh's art and tell him that he can be anything then leave. Deb steals money from one of them. They are both torn about, but decide to keep it.
Hugh and Deb go to prison, Hugh for much longer. Hugh struggles with depression and then kills himself.
They realize there is a problem but when asked whose fault it is they say it isn't theirs and move on. Blinded to the plight of the working man. Environmental factors affecting the poor: There seems to be nowhere out, can hardly even see where you are because of the smoke. Industrial pollution. The narrator points out that there is not a horror movie that would terrify the reader more than tragedies of the working class. Feels as if death if the release.
Disenfranchisement of the American Dream: Assume that everyone can be rich refers to the American system as a ladder that anyone can climb. They tell Hugh that just because he has a talent that makes him better than his situation and that's the only advise they give him. Believes their only way out was money because that's all that's flaunted. They are told to work hard, well dam, how much harder could they work?
Industrial revolution
She runs into a strange man. He stays with them, he is nice, and offers them money if they can help him find the white heron. Sylvia warms up to him. Sylvia know where the bird is and goes to visit it.
She chooses not to tell the young man where the bird is and he leaves.
Unlike the young man, who leaves, industrialization doesn't go away. Local color writing: The imagery is amazing. Last tree of its generation, unique animals. Environment is a healing experience for Sylvia.
Andrew Jackson: The dog that Smiley uses to fight. He's small but he wins every time. But looses to a dog with no legs would have been a great fighter if he hadn't died he had no opportunities. Dan'l Webster: A frog that Smiley catches and teaches to jump really high.
Andrew Jackson was a great dog fighter he had until he dies then he catches Dan'l Webster, a frog that he teaches to jump really high. One day Smiley challenges a man to a frog jumping contest and the man cheats and beats him.
Daniel Webster was an elitist of the north.
Socio economic conditions.
Mag: Jimmie's sister. Tries not to let her environment get the best of her. She's still sweet and naive, but passive. Believes Pete is a "Knight".
Not like the others in her home. Mary: Jimmie and Mag's mother. Alcoholic.
The household of this family is terrible. Mom is a villain. Mag and Pete got a thang going on. Mag leaves to live with Pete.
Jimmie doesn't like this and Pete and him get into a fight. Jimmie and his mother believe that Maggie abandoned them but they offer her nothing. Pete leaves her and she has to go back to her family, but they kick her out. Maggie dies to prostitution or something and her mother and brother are not remorseful.
Irene remembers how she bumped into Clare in Chicago. Irene goes home with Clare and Clare's husband has no idea she's passing and calls her Nig as a joke. Clare is not happy but she puts on a front. Irene is not happy with her husband either. Clare joins them at one of their functions.
Irene's family loves Clare but Irene can not stand her. Irene runs into John but does not want to expose Clare. At one of the functions, Irene pushes Clare out of the window.
Always got what she wanted. But she isn't happy with her lifestyle. Only goes to the function when she finds out white people go to. Sleeping with Irene's husband and hanging out with her kids when she's not around. She's selfish and flippant about how her actions will affect her or others.
Brian Redfield: Irenes good for nothing husband. Greedy for things he'll never have. Gets on Irene's nerve. John Bellew: Clare's racist ass husband.
