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Sinclair Ross' "Field of Wheat" is a poignant testament to human endurance as well as the frailty individuals sometimes must admit in the face of fickle nature. Each season, in its turn brings new concerns for a farmer. An unseasonably warm winter might cause early sewn seeds to sprout and then freeze. Spring might come to late for the fruits of the grain to mature by harvest. Fall might bring to much rain and wash out the strong shoots or blight them with disease. Summer, the season that seems it would be the sweetest, can bring to hot a sun or as in this case a fast moving summer storm that brings the earth to renewal before human intervention can reach its goal. Ross paints a universal picture of the strain of the weather on agriculture. These are still the factors that can make or break a crop, a year or even a family.
The point-of-view of the burned-out farm wife wavering between desperation and endurance seals the imagery of the story into apposition of the hope of every crops inherent gamble, born on the back of her husband, John. Martha...
She can name, not so lightly, the calamity that has been the end of so many crops, and this crop is the best one ever. Martha makes a mental list of how deserved her John is for this success as she ticks of the list, "A crop like this was coming to him. He had had his share of failures and set-backs, if ever a man had, twenty times over...Wasting and unending it was as struggle, struggle against wind and insects, drought and weeds. Not an heroic struggle to give a man courage and resolve, but a frantic, unavailing one."
Martha views her husband in her minds eye as she looks out over the field and sees his wake of dust, "hunched black and sweaty on the harrow-cart, twelve hours a day, smothering in dust, shoulders sagged wearily beneath the glare of sun." She is keenly aware that his hope is not for himself and by default not for the generation for which she belongs, but for their children. So their success might not be tied to the strength of their backs. Sacrifices made and gambles embraced…
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