Coffee
As a precious and expensive commodity, coffee represents luxury to the subsistence-farming Creighton family. When the war causes the price of coffee to spike, it shows how the Civil War affected nearly everyone in the…
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Walnut Hill
Walnut Hill, where the Creighton family buries its dead, represents the precarity of life. It is home to the three Creighton children who died of polio in early childhood, as well as sister Mary…
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