I am reading a collection of short stories in the book Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan. In this blog I will discussing many different aspects of some of the stories written in the book. The goal of my blog is to give you a sense of what some of these stories is about and the major themes in them. I hope that after viewing my blog, you will be inspired to read it.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Walk the BLue Fields
The next story I read had the same name as the title of the book. I feel like there had to be some significance to this. The cover of the story has a woman's face on it but we can only see her forehead and hair. The rest of the cover has fields that are a blueish color. The story is about a man, a priest actually, that is in love with the woman he had to see get married to someone else. The priest performed the ceremony which was torture for him. He wanted to leave after the ceremony but he felt obligated to stay. He recalls throughout the story of how their affair began and how he could not be with her fully because he was not allowed to leave the priesthood. The priest finally leaves and journey through some fields outside the town where he reflects more on his relationship with the new bride. He brings up how he had his chance to be with her and lost it. This happens to people all the time and it's unfortunate. People have millions of chances to do something but can lose it in a minute. That is the whole premise of the story. The priest regrets not being with this girl and now she is married to someone else so he will never get this opportunity ever again.
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