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...Death Curse. All work and no play made John a dour boy. What happened next was to make him a dour man. The same year he passed his law examination he married Eula Hicks, the prettiest girl in Sheridan, a tiny thing with a profusion of auburn ringlets. When John went away to World War I (he was discharged as a first lieutenant), something happened to the marriage. Exactly what is locked behind the tight lips of John McClellan himself. Court records show only that
McClellan stayed with it-to the exclusion of all else. He fell back on the cure he had taken after his divorce from Eula: work, more work, still more work. Finally a worried colleague talked McClellan into going along to a friend's Washington home, where "a very attractive lady" was visiting. McClellan went, reluctantly-and then he saw the lady. "I'll never forget," says McClellan. "She came down the steps of the house wearing a picture blue hat and a blue dress, a beautiful lady in blue." The lady in blue was a widow from North...
John McClellan's mother had died bearing him. His first wife had died hating him. His second wife died loving him. After his third marriage, McClellan reached again for family happiness and stability. They were beyond him. In North Africa, during World War II, Corporal Max McClellan-Eula's son-came down with a back ailment. Doctors neglected him, his Army superiors accused him of goldbricking-until he. like Lucille McClellan, died of spinal meningitis. John and Max had never been close, which made the boy's death all the more painful. Says a close family friend...
...other ways. McClellan had always drawn within himself to answer problems. As if to spare himself future pain, he turned away from his children. They used to say of him that he never seemed to care about them until they were dead. Now there is a drawing-together. Eula's daughter Doris, whose whole life has been a fight to win her father's affection ("There's no one in the world I'd rather see walk in the door than my dad, because I just love him to death"), feels at last that...
...Labyrinths. The plot slithers like a water moccasin through the canebrakes among four narrators and unnumbered previous Faulkner books; it more or less turns around the fact that Eula, daughter of the old. failed squire Varner, has become pregnant-though nobody is sure by whom. Varner marries her off to Flem Snopes, who advances from shortest-order cook to bank vice president, then moves up several more rungs of Jefferson's social ladder when he permits "Major" De Spain to cuckold him with Eula. His motives are Snopesean and Faulknerian: through a kind of sexual osmosis, he hopes that...