The day had begun with an inability to sleep, a pattern that had developed over the few days since Dave’s suicide. Dave’s suicide. This actually happened.
Scot seems to recognize that the tall tale is actually an instruction for controlling and disciplining women. Bridle the woman before she bridles you. Violate the woman before she violates you.
The grasses are so tall that the kids, following him in a single-file line, almost disappear behind him, as if the prairie is swallowing them up, one by one.
