Unseen Passage - "The Crow Road"
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Unseen Passage - "The Crow Road" The passage "The Crow Road" presents a situation in which the reactions of individual family members manifest their personalities. At a time of common grief arising from the death of the narrator Prentice's grandmother, he observes the unfamiliar moment, absorbing the minute details and emotions, or lack thereof, of his nonchalant family. Amidst the rusticated environment of Gallanach to which Prentice has returned for his grandmother's funeral from the city of Glasgow, he notices with a renewed perspective the effects that a funeral has on the various members of his family. Instead of cursorily observing their manner, he notices everything with clarity. From the way his "father was grinding his teeth" thinking about something as unnecessary as what he considered the inappropriate "non-secular" music playing rather than the sadness at the death of his mother, the reader can presume that he defends his suppressed emotions with...


