ATDTDA (7): 189-191 plotline

[Peter Petto]

This is the beginning of the end for Webb Traverse, starting out, "By 
the end...." Starting for a moment with life at work in the mines, 
the attention shifts quickly to a family fallen apart. The feeling is 
full of remorse, and the sense that it's just too late for anything 
to change.

"It seemed he could get along with everybody these days except the 
two women in his own family. the ones that ought to've mattered 
most...." His boys are gone, and he's almost gone too. And as we 
look, Lake is pretty gone too.

Webb is on Lake's case, convinced that she has become a prostitute, 
interrogating her and challenging her answers. And Lake fires right 
back. May defends Lake at first, but things disintegrate quickly and 
before we know it, Lake is out for good, and as she heads back to the 
wicked city, she sees the neer-do-wells she has been hanging with, 
dangerous as they are, as more appealing and more family than her 
family.

At the end of the section she is back at home for a moment to nab the 
last of her things, and imagines taking Webb out herself by dropping 
a stick of dynamite on him from a perch high above him on a mountain.

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Peter Petto <ppetto at apk.net>
Bay Village, OH