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Posted by scumhorror on 12/14/2004, 9:29 am While reading the book again I thought about the things madalin was doing, starting the school to educate the newly freed slaves and so forth and writes it all in her journal to orry as if they are having a conversation. But I wonder how orry would have reacted to madalin’s actions had he lived. After all he is a “southern man” the fights he and George had over the slave issue even though orry knew he was right didn’t stop him from being defensive. I wonder that if orry had lived would he have acted similar to cooper? Isolated him self from the north and the hazards (it’s happened before the war) possibly quarrel with his wife because he can’t just throw away all his years of breeding. Of course orry would have eventually saw the error of his ways but I can’t help but feel that he would have not gone along as smoothly as madeiln writes to him in her journal
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I have been re reading the N&S trilogy and I am about 100 pages into heaven and hell and this time around a thought came to me. I like the way coopers character changes through out the story. Starting out as a free thinking idealist who can’t see eye to eye with his father’s way of life, he then endured the tragic events that happened during the war that started his liberal decline slowly becoming more and more “southern” until you have the older bitter cooper that we know at the end of the saga.
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