A farmhand who works with Ray Pearson. Hal is an irresponsible young man who was a troublemaker in his youth and now has careless sexual relationships with women. When he accidentally gets a girl pregnant, he goes to Ray for advice and unknowingly sends the older man into an existential crisis about his own role as a husband and father.
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Hal Winters Character Timeline in Winesburg, Ohio
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21. The Untold Lie
Ray Pearson and Hal Winters are laborers on the Wills farm outside of Winesburg who come into town to...
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One October day, Ray and Hal are joking with each other as they husk corn in a field. Ray, who is...
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Hal questions whether or not marriage has been worthwhile for Ray and reveals that he has...
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...anything to women who willingly enter relationships with them. Ray decides that he will find Hal before he gets to town and tell him not to marry Nell.
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Running to catch Hal, Ray reflects upon the traveling and life goals that he sacrificed when he married his...
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