Vampires in the lemon grove meaning6/19/2023 ![]() He was ugly, most definitely, but we might have forgiven him for that. Mutant floated among us, hideous, yet blank as a balloon-his calm was unrelenting. They had all almost forgot about Eric until now.Ī mutant, sightless, incapable of shame. Almost immediately, Larry realizes that is looks exactly like Eric Mutis, a kid that he and his friends used to brutally bully. Now Russell returns with her second collection of short stories, Vampires in the Lemon Grove (Knopf), and this time she stretches that golden imagination beyond the humid lagoons of her native state. ![]() Nobody knows where the doll came from or why it’s tied to their tree, but it looks eerie because it’s “five foot five” with a “doll’s wax head, with glass eyes and a sculpted face, but a scarecrow’s body-sackcloth under the jeans and sweat” (208). They consider this to be their tree because it’s where their gang, Camp Dark, always meets. The narrator, Larry, and his friends find a scarecrow-like doll tied to the tree in their favorite part of the park. ![]() Scarecrow country was the actual country, everybody knew that (203). Discuss the relationship between Clyde and Magreb, the two vampires in the title story whose hundred-year marriage is tested when one of them develops a fear of flying. The scarecrow that we found lashed to the pin oak in Friendship Park, New Jersey, was thousands of miles away from the yellow atolls of corn where you might expect to find a farmer’s doll. ![]()
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