Leaving the Yellow House (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Saul Bellow
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: 1957
- Setting: Sego Desert Lake in the American West, perhaps Utah
- Principal Characters: Hattie Waggoner, The Rolfes, The Paces, Darley, Wicks, India
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Memory, Accidents, Survivalism, Loneliness
- Locales: Southwest (U.S.)
The Story
Hattie has lived in her yellow house at Sego Lake for twenty years. She arrived at the beginning of the Depression and lived a vagabond's life with a cowboy named Wicks. When Wicks left, she moved in with a woman of small but independent means named India, the original owner of the yellow house. As the story begins, Hattie is living alone in the small house, which was left to her by India. She has become something of a snob, preferring the society of the Rolfes and the Paces—who, like herself, are landowners and therefore worthy—to that of her former...
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