Summary On a June day some years later, Seth and Dinah, with Dinah’s two children, are waiting for Adam to come home. Arthur, now a colonel, has returned from the wars weakened by a fever, and Adam has gone to see him. Dinah expresses her sympathy for Arthur, and for […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book VI: EpilogueSummary and Analysis Book VI: Chapters 54-55
Summary When Dinah has been gone for six weeks, Adam begins to grow impatient, and he decides to go to Snowfield in search of her. When he arrives, Dinah is off preaching in the next town. Adam rides to the top of a hill overlooking the town and waits to […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book VI: Chapters 54-55Summary and Analysis Book VI: Chapter 53
Summary The following Wednesday, Adam goes to the Hall Farm expecting to see Dinah. The annual harvest supper is being held, and Adam joins the group of farmhands at the table. The author gives portraits of some of the laborers and then describes the ritual of the Harvest Song. After […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book VI: Chapter 53Summary and Analysis Book VI: Chapters 51-52
Summary Dinah goes back to the farm that evening, but not before Lisbeth has probed her with questions about Adam. Lisbeth tells Seth that she thinks Dinah loves Adam, but Seth tells her to forget about trying to bring them together; as far as he can see, Adam feels nothing […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book VI: Chapters 51-52Summary and Analysis Book VI: Chapters 49-50
Summary Book VI begins after a lapse of eighteen months. The scene opens in the Poyser kitchen: Mrs. Poyser is attempting to convince Dinah, who has been living at the Hall Farm for some time, not to go back to Snowfield. Dinah replies that she must resist the temptations of […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book VI: Chapters 49-50Summary and Analysis Book V: Chapter 48
Summary The next evening, Adam is walking through the grove at the Chase. Adam though still sad, has reconciled himself to accepting his fate, but he and the Poysers have decided, out of shame, to move away from their homes on the estate. Adam and Arthur meet by chance in […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book V: Chapter 48Summary and Analysis Book V: Chapters 46-47
Summary The next morning, Dinah comes to tell Adam that Hetty has repented and now wants to see him. Adam has not yet given up hope of a pardon, but he promises to come the next morning — the day of the execution — if no pardon has been granted […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book V: Chapters 46-47Summary and Analysis Book V: Chapter 45
Summary As evening comes on after the trial, Dinah appears outside the prison. She encounters the gentleman who had watched her from horseback on the day she preached at Hayslope and through him gains admittance to see Hetty. She finds the girl huddled up in a heap. Hetty rises, takes […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book V: Chapter 45Summary and Analysis Book V: Chapter 44
Summary Arthur sets out for home from Liverpool. He is in fine spirits; he has just come into his property, and the future looks sunny. He had heard that Adam was to marry Hetty and had been pleased; that affair apparently has ended well. He feels that his life is […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book V: Chapter 44Summary and Analysis Book V: Chapter 43
Summary The first thing Adam notices on entering the courtroom is Hetty herself. To Adam she is still beautiful; to less prejudiced eyes she appears hard and worn. Two witnesses give testimony. One says that Hetty had borne the baby in her house and had then run off with it […]
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