Leaving The Yellow House Analysis
Ivy Gwin
Hensley
English II Honors / 4th period
26 January 2017
Leaving The Yellow House Saul Bellow wrote the short story Leaving the Yellow House. The main character is a seventy-two year old woman named Harriet Simmons Waggoner. Harriet is known as Hattie throughout the story. The setting of this story takes place in Sego Desert Lake, Utah. Very few people live here, and according to Hattie there are only six white people that live there. Her neighbors were the Rolfe?s, Wicks, Pace, and a widow by the name of Amy Walters. There were other white people in Sego Desert Lake, but Hattie did not consider them. Darly, a sixty-eight year old man, is a the Rolfe?s cowboy and Sam Jervis works on Hattie?s garden. They are both white but Hattie does …show more content…
She thinks about her ex-husband, James John Waggoner IV. She also thinks about Wicks, a man she had relations with for a long time. If she had to choose, she said she would always choose Jimmy, her ex-husband, over Wicks. She loved both of them but Wicks was a cowboy, and he was ?socially nothing.? Hattie continues to reflect on her past and comes across the woman who gave her the yellow house. Her name was India. India treated Hettie like a slave-girl and abused her. India always asked her for forgiveness and Hettie always forgave her; that was the Christian she was. Hettie believed India was the only person who truly cared and loved her. Hettie knows her neighbors care for her, but none care for her the way India did. One day while Helen Rolfe was taking care of Hettie, Helen lays a thick, old comforter on top of Hettie. Hettie notices it is India?s deathbed comforter. A few moments later, Hettie begins to think about her will. Who will get the house when she is gone? Many people have tried to bribe Hettie to give them her house. Many more have tried to scam her out of it by offering her money, they both know they do not have. Hettie thinks about all of her brothers, and she knows none of them will want her house. She then
Hensley
English II Honors / 4th period
26 January 2017
Leaving The Yellow House Saul Bellow wrote the short story Leaving the Yellow House. The main character is a seventy-two year old woman named Harriet Simmons Waggoner. Harriet is known as Hattie throughout the story. The setting of this story takes place in Sego Desert Lake, Utah. Very few people live here, and according to Hattie there are only six white people that live there. Her neighbors were the Rolfe?s, Wicks, Pace, and a widow by the name of Amy Walters. There were other white people in Sego Desert Lake, but Hattie did not consider them. Darly, a sixty-eight year old man, is a the Rolfe?s cowboy and Sam Jervis works on Hattie?s garden. They are both white but Hattie does …show more content…
She thinks about her ex-husband, James John Waggoner IV. She also thinks about Wicks, a man she had relations with for a long time. If she had to choose, she said she would always choose Jimmy, her ex-husband, over Wicks. She loved both of them but Wicks was a cowboy, and he was ?socially nothing.? Hattie continues to reflect on her past and comes across the woman who gave her the yellow house. Her name was India. India treated Hettie like a slave-girl and abused her. India always asked her for forgiveness and Hettie always forgave her; that was the Christian she was. Hettie believed India was the only person who truly cared and loved her. Hettie knows her neighbors care for her, but none care for her the way India did. One day while Helen Rolfe was taking care of Hettie, Helen lays a thick, old comforter on top of Hettie. Hettie notices it is India?s deathbed comforter. A few moments later, Hettie begins to think about her will. Who will get the house when she is gone? Many people have tried to bribe Hettie to give them her house. Many more have tried to scam her out of it by offering her money, they both know they do not have. Hettie thinks about all of her brothers, and she knows none of them will want her house. She then