![]() ![]() But that’s not the only way that they are separating. While he is gone, his wife and child are taking advantage of an invitation to house-sit in Toronto. Peter is an engineer and taking a job out in the boondocks elsewhere in Canada. His smile to his wife: ‘hopeful and trusting, with some sort of determination in it.”ĭetermination. I loved how Peter is described as loving his child: “as if he believed that she would continue to be a marvel to him”. It is one of two important scenes where Greta and Katy are looking down from that window. ![]() He stands on the platform his family…beloved daughter Katy and wife Greta above him…looking out and down from the train window. It’s as if the events in the world were the envelope but the letter inside is the person.Īlice Munro says that Peter “seemed” to want to get himself out of the way as his family is leaving by train. You reach “character” in fiction by showing how it configures the world around it.
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