5/10/2023 0 Comments The lincoln highway reviews![]() ![]() They’re all set to go, only for Duchess and Woolly to turn up. The punch wasn’t a killer, but the freak way in which the punch’s recipient landed resulted in him dying, and the rather innocent and good Emmett being sent to Salina. Two years before, he turned around to punch a Morgen local who was taunting him endlessly about his failed father. Indeed, he can’t realistically stay in Nebraska because of what brought him to Salina in the first place. ![]() Emmett will buy one house, rehab it only to sell it at a profit, then buy two houses with an eye on fixing both only to sell one while living in the other.Īs Emmett’s neighbor Sally Ransom puts it about Emmett late in the novel, he acts like smiles are a “precious resource.” Emmett is a serious, moral person albeit one with a past that’s not all of his own making. He and Billy will go either to California or Texas in order to start a new life. He also has $3,000 that his father secretly left him that will fund a move out of Morgen. Emmett’s plan is to pack Billy and very few belongings into a Studebaker he’d purchased with the proceeds from his work as a carpenter’s apprentice before Salina. ![]()
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