“We had spent our life together…putting the best face on things, harboring secrets’1 (280). Her relationship with her husband Ty, who also believes “people should keep private things private” (308). We knew our roles…without hesitation and without consultation (215).
Ginny Cook, the narrator, describes her family as “well trained. They do not look past the surface of one another’s lives: they agree with Larry Cook: “less said about that, the better” (145). The people of Zebulon mimic the water, and do not appear as they really are. “There was no way to tell by looking that the land…was new. Smiley uses water to enhance her theme of appearances vs. In A Thousand Acres, Larry Cook, the greatest farmer in Zebulon County, controls the land and his family to the point of poisoning them. These farmers–, however, poison this water with the farming and tile building. A “good farmer” is “a man who so organized his work that the drainage-well catchment basins were cleaned out ever) spring and the grates were painted black every two years'” (47). In Zebulon, good farmers exert authority, have control. where the land is not dry as it appears, Inn “ready at any time to rise and cover die earth again, except for die tile lines… The sea is still beneath our feet, and we walk on it (16). They are the source of each other and create each other.” So it is in Zebulon County. Jane Smiley quotes Mendel Le Sueur: “The body repeats the landscape. Writing Objective: Write a critical paper on A Thousand Acres The Land and the Body in A Thousand Acres By Jocelyn McCracken '00
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