The Golden Dancer Henry Drummond Summary

The Golden Dancer was a rocking horse that Henry Drummond refers to in, Inherit the Winds. He desired it in his youth but, his father's job did not make enough so he was only able to look at it through the window. When describing the Golden Horse Drummond said she had, “a bright red mane,blue eyes, and she was gold all over with purple stripes… she was a dazzling sight to see.”( Lawrence and Lee 109). On his birthday morning he awoke to see that the purple dancer was sitting at the end of his bed. His father had worked late night shifts and his mother cut back n the grocery shopping. He was so excited that he jumped onto the horse just to have it snap in half. The wood was internally rotten and just had some wax seal. Drummond learned that,