![]() ![]() ![]() Death is also horribly unfair in “The Meadow”. Ray, a man born and raised in nature, also dies in an ironic, unexplained way, freezing to death with his pants down in the woods. Yet, he dies in a hospital for men instead of in the wilderness as he would have wanted. ![]() Indeed he is the human embodiment of nature in the novel, being compared frequently to the cunning coyote who visits his meadow. Lyle, for instance, is one of the main characters who spends a lot of his time in nature. He shows this by frequently killing off his most respectable characters in his novel.Īlmost all the main characters in “The Meadow” die, some in obscene ways, others in seemingly unfair, ironic ways, showing that nature is all-powerful and death is inevitable. Galvin includes death regularly to show that it is natural and inevitable – that people are just passing through, whereas wilderness lasts forever. Death is a recurring theme in The Meadow. ![]()
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