barren late-autumn field of sheared cornstalks, their papery remains bent toward the earth, waiting for the punishment of the long Minnesota winter to grind them into dust.
Grandfather and Ambrose early on are romanticized, idealized, Emmy has visceral feelings towards them. Doing what she thought she had been waiting for all of her 12 years. Then she sees the eyes and the viscera of the deer—she almost throws up.
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