Hope placed on the wrong things.īessie is also a minister, and plans to make one of Dude, though he has no experience up to this point. For the bulk of the narrative, most of the characters are focused on what will turn out to be squandered resources. When Jeeter’s son, Dude, marries the much older and widowed Sister Bessie Rice, the family is overly captivated by the automobile Bessie has the cash to buy. He has no money for seed or fertilizer, which means he has no means to create means. The Lesters’ lives are intrinsically tied to the earth, so much so that the patriarch, Jeeter, can’t consider the opportunity that could afford itself in the city, and stubbornly holds himself (and his family) to a life with no options and no hope. Caldwell’s 1932 novel portrays the life of a poor, white sharecropper family near Augusta, Georgia (which happens to be very close to my mother’s people’s land), and at the same time lays the thematic foundation for a genre that will follow. Hitchcock’s Southern Lit class at Auburn. Wolfe may be right that you can’t go home again, but re-reading Erskine Caldwell’s Tobacco Road took me right back to Dr.
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