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He is very careful with his business and doesn't trust anyone. Now Flem is the smartest and craftest of the the bunch and even his own family are pawns to make himself more money or even in one case keep himself out of jail. The more someone else talks the more he reveals about his business. They do their business with a minimum amount of interaction. Ratliff, just another rube for one of their schemes. The problem with Snopes is they can give you the impression that you are smarter than they are, but as the novel progresses we find out that their diligence and shrewdness make even the "smartest" man in the county, V. He hires Ab's son Flem to come work at the Varner store and before long Flem has taken over Jody's job. Once Will's son Jody Varner makes the decision to bring in Ab Snopes the tribbles start to accumulate. Some of you may remember a Star Trek episode titled The Trouble with Tribbles well in Frenchman's Bend The Trouble is with Snopes. This is the first book of the trilogy about the Snopes family followed by The Town: A Novel of the Snopes Familyand The Mansion. I had read a couple of hundred pages before it really sunk in that. Basically everyone is poor, but everyone seems to have what they need. That concept really didn't get invented until after World War Two and it certainly didn't filter down to all of rural America until much later. Will Varner owned pretty much everything worth owning in the hamlet of Frenchman's Bend creating a certain amount of order and consistency in the lives of all the inhabitants. The air was hot, vivid and breathless-a final fierce concentration of the doomed and dying summer.įirst Edition of The Hamlet published in 1940 In field after field as he passed along the pickers, arrested in stooping attitudes, seemed fixed amid the constant surf of bursting bolls like piles in surf, the long, partly-filled sacks streaming away behind them like rigid frozen flags. The cotton was open and spilling into the fields the very air smelled of it. First Edition of The Hamlet published in 1940 Will Varner It was now September. The air was hot, vivid and breathless-a final fierce concentration of the doomed and dying summer.