5/9/2023 0 Comments Summary of apples never fall![]() ![]() In his wedding toast at Claire and Troy’s wedding (a marriage long since scuttled by Troy’s casual infidelity), Stan defends the power of love despite its vulnerability. This occurs late in the novel (in the scene right before he’s to be arrested for murdering Joy). ![]() Ironically, Stan, who broods through most of the novel as a husband who has most likely killed his wife on Valentine’s Day, delivers the novel’s most powerful endorsement of love. Divorce, calculated infidelities, physical abuse, long periods of chilly silence, distrust, selfishness, disappointment, the dark itch of lust, emotional indifference, the solace of distance, emotional and geographical-overall, the novel seems to dismiss love as a chimerical fantasy. Even Stan and Joy’s own parents were locked into claustrophobic marriages that simmered near anger and violence-and endured only through alcohol and fights. Each of their kids faces a different level of relationship failure. The story opens as Leeds Gabriel meets with a detective while his girlfriend, Layla, is restrained in a room one flight above them. Stan and Joy, despite appearing to have a stable and content marriage, bear deep grudges against each other that regularly create tension and drama. An aimless young musician meets the girl of his dreams only to have his newfound happiness threatened by several inexplicableand possibly supernaturalevents. ![]()
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