The Orchardist
Amanda Coplin
“-out from under the suffocating weight of it. Suffering had formed him: made him silent and deliberate, thoughtful: deep. Generous and kind and attentive...” (Coplin 123)
”Annd that was the point of children...to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death.” (Coplin 124)
“...slowly so they would not become angry and force her out. When one of them began to catch on that though she stumbled and made bad calls like the rest of them, she was overall successful- though she was careful not to brag or to let the month remain long on the table when she won it-when one of the men realized this, she would read it on his face, and the next night she would force herself no to do so well.” (Coplin 177) She swallows her expensive emotions and is therefore overall successful. “Everything about the trip was new, and while excited and stimulated, Angelene was also exhausted by what she realized later was her extreme vulnerability.” (Coplin 181) ”All of these things she kept inside herself, constantly rearranged them, to create her happiness. Being alone, she was able to see each thing more clearly. Although there was fear in solitude, somehow this only made things sharper.” (Coplin 263) ”-the anticipation was great, but the joy was in the anticipation-” (Coplin 404) ”She revered solitude, but only because there was the possibility of breaking it.” (Coplin 414) ”Do not rush. Only a fool rushes.”
Coplin is not friends with her characters..she just went right up and hung those girls! WFT is this GOT? Good writing. Talmadge would have been good friends with Biff.