Dec 18, 2009

Leaving the Yellow House | Characters

Darly
Darly is Pace’s sixty-eight-year-old ranch hand. Like Hattie, he comes from the East Coast. Darly inadvertently causes Hattie to break her arm, but he never apologizes for his mistake. Throughout the story, he and Hattie are seen as behaving antagonistically toward each other, each annoyed by the others’ tacit accusations of being a drunk. In reality, they are uncomfortable with the mirror image each presents to the other.

Pace
Pace, one of Hattie’s neighbors, runs a dude ranch. He offers to help Hattie out by giving...