WHO MUST HAVE KNOWN
AT SOME TIME IN HER LIFE
HATTIE TOLLIVER
“_Life is hard for our children. It isn’t as simple as it was for us.
Their grandfathers were pioneers and the same blood runs in their veins,
only they haven’t a frontier any longer. They stand ... these children
of ours ... with their backs toward this rough-hewn middle west and
their faces set toward Europe and the East and they belong to neither.
They are lost somewhere between._”
“_Every one of us is different from the others. There are no two in the
least alike and no one ever really knows any one else. There is always a
part which remains secret and hidden, concealed in the deepest part of
the soul. No husband ever knows his wife and no wife ever really knows
her husband. There is always something just beyond that remains aloof
and untouched, mysterious and undiscoverable, because we ourselves do
not know just what it is. Sometimes it is shameful. Sometimes it is too
fine, too precious, ever to reveal. It is quite beyond revelation even
if we chose to reveal it._”
“THE GREEN BAY TREE” is part of what is in a sense a single work
known as “ESCAPE,” which includes three other parts: “POSSESSION,”
“EARLY AUTUMN,” and “A GOOD WOMAN.”