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Posted by Felaries on 8/31/2008, 2:17 pm, in reply to "Re: if orry lived..."
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If you read the second novel - "LOVE AND WAR" - you would see that Orry was already starting to question the Southern view of the war. Before he left Mont Royal, he found a book in which his father - Tillet Main - had questioned the existence of slavery. Something that surprised him. Orry was even furthered surprised to realize that a part of him felt the same.
And later in the novel, he was beginning to harbor a certain bitterness toward the Confederate elite . . . especially after Ashton had outed Madeline as 1/8 black. The only reason he had continued his duty was out of some obligation to finish what he had started.
Considering Orry's bitterness over the Confederate elite's treatment toward Madelaine, I think that he would have become a more hardened liberal if he had lived.
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