A sexual misstep by the dietitian Miss Atkins leads to the ejection of the protagonist from his orphanage.
The first chapter of this novel ends with one character's purchase of a fifteen-cent can of sardines and observation of two large plumes of smoke in the distance. Chronologically earlier than that, another character is so disgusted by the menstrual cycle that he slaughters a farmer's sheep. A third character is so caught up in the mystery of his chicken-stealing Cavalryman grandfather that he does not care about his adulterous wife, who had committed suicide by jumping from a hotel window. A sexual misstep by the dietitian Miss Atkins leads to the ejection of the protagonist from his orphanage. Thus begins the protagonist's string of misfortunes, which include his murder of foster father (*) Mr. McEachern, castration in the farm of Gail Hightower, and murder of Joanna Burden. Lena Grove searches for the father of her child in, for 10 points, what novel about Joe Christmas, written by William Faulkner?
The first chapter of this novel ends with one character's purchase of a fifteen-cent can of sardines and observation of two large plumes of smoke in the distance.
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