Comments on: Fiction: Iowan Work Ethic

By: Anne Tyler Lord

Anne Tyler Lord — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:28:50 +0000

Thanks Cecilia, I am also fascinated with family history, what gets passed on, what doesn’t and how changes occur. Your right, so much unsaid and never shared!!

By: Anne Tyler Lord

Anne Tyler Lord — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:28:01 +0000

Melisa, thanks so much for your comments. Your dissertation sounds very interesting! I am curious to know what major you are that would let you do a dissertation of that nature? Psych? Soc?

By: Cecilia Dominic

Cecilia Dominic — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:02:31 +0000

Wow, you can almost see the stark cornfields in the background of this one. What a lot of pain you portray in just a few words! Family histories are so interesting, especially the parts that you don’t ever hear.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:44:58 +0000

Heartbreaking, just heartbreaking. This earning of redemption and not being worthy of happiness–haunts so much of our culture still, perhaps even all (albeit not in exactly the same form). Love the theme–it’s one dear to me. My dissertation deals with a form of it (working through the concept of punishment). I like the third person here–distance while treating intense emotion–perfect for the theme of the story.

By: Anne Tyler Lord

Anne Tyler Lord — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:59:33 +0000

Thanks Amy! I love getting the feedback from new visitors! I’m so glad you will be stopping by again!

By: Anne Tyler Lord

Anne Tyler Lord — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:59:04 +0000

Thanks Cathy, I’m glad you liked it!

By: Anne Tyler Lord

Anne Tyler Lord — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:57:22 +0000

Hi PJ, thanks for comments! I was debating about nonfiction with this stuff also. It is based on factual events, but I didn’t have enough info. I plan to do several slices of life back in the Iowa farm heydays of the 1920-50s. I would like to see yours too.

By: Anne Tyler Lord

Anne Tyler Lord — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:55:52 +0000

Thanks Genevieve, for your comments and feedback. It is amazing to realize how much this kind of behavior still exists today.

By: Amy Sorrells

Amy Sorrells — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:19:48 +0000

I love this story! Hooked me in right away. I’m not an editor or critiqu-er, but love writing, and this piece was really worth the read. Can’t wait to come back and visit again! ~Amy

By: Cathy Olliffe

Cathy Olliffe — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:11:48 +0000

Loved your story. Touching, tender, infinitely sad, well-written, the whole package.