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The Town Chapter 39

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Chapter 39 which is the last chapter in the book shows the realization that Carrol really didn’t acompish much in Washington and decides to come back and live , she realized that majority the town will not change and instead just decides to live in the town and get married and has more kids. Carol looks at coming back to this town as a job and doesent really enjoy coming back to that town “After a week she decided that she was neither glad nor sorry to be back. She entered each day with the matter–of–fact attitude with which she had gone to her office in Washington. It was her task; there would be mechanical details and meaningless talk; what of it? (page 465)” When I was reading the book I thought maybe there could be a change or maybe she could have sparked a reseince of art and bring in a new culture but instead the town was pretty much the same with not that much change in the town. She feels very defeated that she didn’t accomplish what she really wanted to in that town, in the beginning she had many bright ideads and very creative and with dreams of creating a new culture in the town. At the end of the book all the excitement she had for the future was gone and she just decied to just become a wife and a mother to fit in with the …show more content…

It was very sad to me that the story didn’t have a different more positive ending, the story had a root for the underdog type of feel in the story, you wanted the underdog to win but it never happen in the

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