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The son of the Hardy family who Louise Bentley goes to live with as a teenager. He has a love affair with Louise and marries her when she fears she may be pregnant. After the pregnancy turns out to be a false alarm, Louise feels trapped in the marriage and grows resentful of John. As an adult, John becomes a successful banker in Winesburg. When he and Louise have their son David, John is upset by the way Louise neglects him. He agrees to let David go live with his grandfather Jesse Bentley at twelve years old. A few years later, John spends part of his amassed wealth trying to find David after he runs away from the farm and disappears.
John Hardy Quotes in Winesburg, Ohio
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9. Godliness, Part III: Surrender
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It seemed to her that between herself and all the other people in the world, a wall had been built up and that she was living just on the edge of some warm inner circle of life that must be quite open and understandable to others. She became obsessed with the thought that it wanted but a courageous act on her part to make all of her association with people something quite different, and that it was possible by such an act to pass into a new life as one opens a door and goes into a room.
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John Hardy Quotes in Winesburg, Ohio
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9. Godliness, Part III: Surrender
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It seemed to her that between herself and all the other people in the world, a wall had been built up and that she was living just on the edge of some warm inner circle of life that must be quite open and understandable to others. She became obsessed with the thought that it wanted but a courageous act on her part to make all of her association with people something quite different, and that it was possible by such an act to pass into a new life as one opens a door and goes into a room.
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