The Mansion, 371 (Event)

Page Number: 
371
Order within Page: 
3
First 8-10 words of event: 
Now the town wondered more than ever
Page Event Ends: 
371
Era: 
Midcentury (1941-)
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Friday, January 11, 1946 to Friday, June 21, 1946
Summary: 

Gavin Stevens says that the town could not figure out what Snopes was up to and why he didn't lock the hog up better. After all, he can't sell it since no one would "give full market price per pound for a hog containing fourteen or fifteen months of Number 10 lead shot" (371). Note: There is another problem with this dating. It "fourteen or fifteen months" of Number 10 shot seems to indicate that this had been going on for over a year. Yet, if this were the case, the dispute would have ended somewhere in later 1947 or early 1948. Given the total order of the novel, this is an impossibility because the novel ends in the fall of 1946. Alternatively, "fourteen or fifteen months" could also be read as figuratively.

Chronological Order: 
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Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Theme: Snopesism,

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