Buried Child

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farm ceased to be fertile, and fell into disuse. This is a symbol of the death of honesty and the birth of the family�s terrible secret.
Why exactly does everything go wrong for this family? We don�t know exactly when the problems started, but we know that Ansel died on his honeymoon, Bradley cut off his own leg in a chain saw accident and is now mentally imbalanced, Tilden is nonfunctional and has been driven out of New Mexico, Dodge is a crazy old sick guy, and Halie is doing shady things with the preacher. Vince is the only person capable of facing the world and life, but he too is corrupted by the secret at the end. The answer to the question is that their secret, the dead child, is a secret festering them from the inside out. It is unclear
how long this moral degradation took, it may have taken years for all this to happen. We do know that it has left everyone impotent.

Bradley is the most vivid example of this impotence. His false leg is his crutch, both figuratively ...

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