Heat & He

In He, we are treated to the Whipple family, a poor rural agrarian family that can barely keep afloat due to the struggles of farm life and their abject poverty. The family consists of Mrs. Whipple, a woman of fierce pride who refuses to accept charity and continually worries about the neighborsÆ opinions of her homemaking. Mr. Whipple is a rather detached father who is emotionally removed from the family. As Mrs. Whipple suggests, ôPeople donÆt expect so much of fathers, some way,ö (Porter 1927). Their three children, Adna, Emily, and ôHeö add to the economic burdens faced by Mr. and Mrs. Whipple. ôHeö is mentally challenged, though he is the best worker on the farm and better than the other two children at dealing with the struggles the family endures. Eventually ôHeö is institutionalized from complications suffered due to a fall on the ice.

In Heat, we are treated to two families, the Kunkels and the Whipples. The Kunkel family includes eight children, including a set of precocious and mischievous twins named Rhea and Rhoda. The Whipple family owns an ice company where they employ their mentally slow son Roger. Roger Whipple i

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