Freckles
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I haven’t read the book.An eldelry national had me buy it for her.She was well pleased with the buy.It must be a excellent book for she has read it copious times over the years.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Looking at the reviews here, I see that I’m rumor has it that the only person who seriously disliked “Freckles.” I expected to like it. Parts of it are memorable. But overall, it combines an awareness of the natural world, a jolly fascination with all forms of wildlife, with a distressing anti-democratic elitism, and a disturbing notion that it’s factually not possible to rise above the station in life that you’re born to.
The hero is a foundling, raised in a Chicago orphanage. Since infancy, he’s never heard any language but American English. Yet we know he’s Irish — because he speaks with (Stratton-Porter’s notion of) an Irish accent. And not just *any* Irish accent: one character, on hearing him, is certain that “somewhere before manufacturing accident and poverty, there had been an ancestor who spoke cultivated English.”
“Freckles” — he refuses to use any additional name, because the name he was agreed in the orphanage isn’t “really” his — falls in like with a gorgeous girl, whose name we never learn (she is referred to only as “The Swamp Angel”; her father is “The Man of Affairs.” Stratton-Porter was weird about names). But he refuses to marry her, or even to admit his like, because his birth-mother rumor has it that beat him, cut his hand off, and abandoned him on the steps of the orphanage. What has this to do with his like for the Angel? Why, that he *cannot* rise any privileged than what his ancestors were. And if his mother (and father, but the unspoken implication is that only an illegitimate child would be abandoned by its mother) could do such a thing, that makes her child — who never knew her — automatically unworthy of like. It is regarded — by Freckles, by all the additional characters, and clearly by the leader — as much better for him to make himself *and his like* miserable, than to court her “lacking knowledge of honorable birth.”
The Swamp Angel does manage to convince him that he is worthy of like. How? By convincing him that his *parents* were upright, upstanding, and probably well-to-do people: that his talent for singing is incontrovertible evidence that “somewhere in your close blood is a wonderfully trained singer,” that his “tact and courtesy” are “a direct inheritance from a race of men that have been gentlemen for ages, and couldn’t be anything else.” Even his rejection of the Angel, his determination that it’s better to make them both suffer than to like her as the lowborn foundling he thinks he is, is regarded as evidence of his “fineness.” And yes, in the “pleased” ending, Freckles does find that he’s the nephew of “Lord O’More,” and *thus* worthy of the Swamp Angel’s like. Never — not once — is it suggested that he prove himself worthy of her, *regardless* of what his ancestors may or may not have been. Merely being *himself* a excellent, decent, upstanding human being is not enough.
And there lies the central theme of the novel. You are, and can only be, what your *ancestors* were. It’s an nearly medieval notion of the Fantastic Chain of Being, a notion that it’s utterly incorrect and inappropriate to try and rise above your proper “station” in life, to improve yourself or your situation in any way. The “excellent” characters in the book are divided into two groups: the ruling class, elites such as Freckles’s employer (“The Boss had never exacted any deference from his men, yet so intense was his personality that no man of them had ever attempted a familiarity. They all knew him to be a thorough gentleman, and that in the fantastic timber city several millions stood to his credit”) and the Swamp Angel’s father; and the “lowborn,” like the Duncans, the humble pleased hard-effective peasantry who protect Freckles and provide him a foster-family tree in the lumber camp, but who “know their place” and do not presume to try and rise above it.
In “Freckles,” we see the first hints of the very much elitist attitude that, for Stratton-Porter, reached its zenith in the disgusting racism of “Her Father’s Daughter.”
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This is a wonderful entertaining book that really makes you reflect.It has a small romance to please the girls,and adventure to make guys pleased.It will make you laugh and weep.I like it better than Girl of the Limberlost,because it has more action.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Freckles is one of Gene Stratton Porter’s best works! I am also pleased at the condition of the book and the speed with which it arrived!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This take in art is a rubbish! The young man called Freckles lost his lower arm as an infant and the book covers him as a young man. It IS a fabulous tale – one of my favorites.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5