The Town, 274 (Event)

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Submitted by lorie.watkins@g... on Sat, 2018-03-17 12:02
Text: 
The Town
Location: 
Bank of Jefferson in The Town (Location)
Page Number: 
274
Order within Page: 
1
First 8-10 words of event: 
At last we knew why he had moved his money.
Page Event Ends: 
275
Era: 
The Twenties (1920-1929)
Characters Present: 
Flem Snopes
Characters Mentioned: 
Unnamed Jefferson Townspeople
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Saturday, January 1, 1927 to Monday, April 11, 1927
Notes: 

I can break this up if that's preferable--I just lumped it altogether as a single event because Ratliff undercuts Gavin's entire tortured conjecture in the next scene. I dated it April of 1927 because the "school holiday"in chapter 19 is in April.--LW
TMT: I originally had it more broken up, but I see your logic and have left the entry as is; SFR can make the final call.
CUT: In an extended meditation that takes up most of chapter seventeen, Gavin Stevens speculates about Flem Snopes's motivations, as well as those of Eula Snopes and Manfred de Spain.

Summary: 

In Chapter Seventeen Gavin's narration becomes almost omniscient as he considers recent developments - especially the way Flem becomes president of the Sartoris bank - in the larger context of Flem's life. The chapter begins by focusing on what happened when Flem became the bank's vice president, five years earlier.

Chronological Order: 
277.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Interpretation: Revelation Money: Cultural power Style: Talkative passim
Actions:
Economic›Banking | Mental›Discovery | Moral›Scheming
Aesthetics:
Narrative›First-person passim throughout section

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