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This passage quickly establishes the ranch as a place of hostile and unfriendly conditions, and introduces a tense and antagonistic relationship between man and nature. The ranch refuses to sustain the Corn family, and actively thwarts Mero and Rollo’s efforts to tame it: cattle mysteriously disappear or die, and even the bare materials of ranching—hay for feeding—cannot grow on the land. As a result, Mero’s father decides to change careers. This decision lessens the sons’ respect for their father, adding emotional complications to the family’s financial troubles.
Mero and Rollo misattribute their father’s “defection” to his inadequacy, and Mero even…