Olaf Torvik In Hubbard County

I will be writing about Olaf Torvik from the story. Some background information about Olaf is that his wife, Inge, recently passed away. Inge was from Germany and wasn’t treated with very much respect in Minnesota. Olaf wants his wife to be buried on his farm and he is set on doing that but, he has some conflicts with the law. In Hubbard County, Minnesota where he lives, the law forbids that Inge should be buried on his farm.
The story starts off with Olaf argueing with the sheriff about burying his wife on their property, which is against the law there. Once the sheriff makes his point about why he can't bury Inge on the farm, Olaf just sits by his wife and thinks. As he sits by her, he starts to look back and remember their marriage. Even though their marriage was arranged, it worked wonderfully and turned sweetly into love and companionship. At first, the marriage began horribly and seemed like a mistake to both of them at the time, the local authorities made
them wait to marry for more than a year. Inge had just come from Germany, and while WWI had just been fought and won, anti-German sentiment still ran high. Olaf had the threat of imprisonment on him if he chose to break the law but still chose to bury Inge on the farm. He didn’t really change throughout the story, but he did end up realizing that all the things he had worked for and loved were now nearly present. I think Olaf is a fairly respectable person, I think this because you can easily understand why he would look over the law if it means he gets to bury his wife on the farm to be near him. I overall respect Olaf as a character because he is very wise even if he is a very quiet person.
When they slowly dropped Inge down into her grave, he doesn’t say much at all except “No, I’ll wait here until the boys are finished, you go on ahead.” Otherwise its just him standing there thinking about the future. He is standing on his farm in a spot in the middle of the field. A spot where the wheat would soon grow taller, and more golden than the rest. Because of the gravestone made of wheat.
To conclude, Olaf Leif Torvik is an older farmer who had just recently lost his wife. He wants to bury her on the farm “where she belongs”. He is threatened by the law that says he cannot do so, but does it anyways even if he could face consequences. After a long time of thinking about it, he decides to bury his beloved wife Inge in the middle of the wheat field with a gravestone made out of wheat. I respect Olaf as a character and think he is very admirable as a person for always being a great person/husband to
Inge.