A Circle in the Fire | Themes

The relationship between happiness (or blessings) and suffering
Throughout the story, different characters assign different values to aspects of life on Mrs. Cope’s farm. However, there is a sense that what “blesses” Mrs. Cope and her daughter’s existence is also responsible for what makes that existence difficult. For the boys who come to visit the farm, apparently hitchhiking from shabby circumstances in an anonymous Atlanta housing project to get there, the farm offers an abundance of pleasures – none of which they are entitled to, but all of which are clearly...

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