Jayber Crow Thesis

How do you deal with the loss of both your parents at a young age? In the novel Jayber Crow by, Wendell Berry, Jayber tells us about what he goes through after losing his parents when he was just a young boy,. H grows up to be a well known barber in Port William. The city of Port William respects Jayber as a citizen and as their town barber In Port William,. Maybe Crow tell us how he deals with love, lost, and hope in many of his situations in life. “ Love is a deep and strong feeling you have for another person.” Jayber’s love for Mattie runs deep he has been in love with her since she was a teenager, this is seen in the novel, when Jayber talks about the first time he sees Mattie and her friends walking up the street laughing and talking.

Even after Mattie and Troy got married and had kids Jayber still dreamed about being with Mattie got stronger as the years went by. In the novel, Jayber talks about how life would be ion he was married to Mattie and how his love grew stronger. Jayber know Mattioe is younger than him, but he cannot help how he feels about her . In Jayber eyes Mattie is the prettiest girl he know . Jayber knows he can never be with Mattie because she is married to another man. “ I was married to Mattie Chatham but she was not married to me, which pretty fairly balanced her marriage to Troy, who became less married to her, thought legally ( and varyingly in appearance) he remained her husband.” In the article Painful stages of falling in love with someone you can never have these are 25 steps another is “ There are plenty of fish in the sea,” this is seen in the story when Jayber meets Clyde at the Rosebud

Jayber’s parents die in the terrible winter of 1917 and 1918. Jayber take losing his parents veryhard, this is seen in the story, “ And then an old woman I knew as Aunt Cordie gathered me up without asking and sat down in the rocking chair and held me and let em cry.” This shows that Jayber took losing his parents hard. After losing his parents Jayber goes to live with Aunt Cordie and Uncle Othy in Squires Landing. While living with with Aunt Cordie and Uncle Othy Jayber helps out around the house thsi is seen in the story when he talks about how he helps with everything, “ I helped her with everything: keeping up fries , maintaining the lamps, cooking, cleaning fish, dressing poultry, washing the dishes, washing the dishes , washing the clothes, cleaning the house, working in the garden, putting up food for winter.” Jayber also like going down to the store when he is not helping Aunt Cordie at the house. He also helps Uncle Othy with some farming jobs. But he like to help Aunt Cordie more than Uncle Othy because he is hard to please. One afternoon Put Woolfork found Uncle Othy lying face down in mud on the riverbank, where he had gone to bail out his boat after hard