He collapses and tells them about the accident, but says nothing about the affair. Hank returns home, and sees Viv and Lee through the hole in the wall. At home, unaware of the tragedy that has occurred, Viv and Lee consummate their affair. Another part of the tree pushes Hank’s cousin Joe Ben into the river, pinning him down in the water. One day, the half-recovered Henry is cutting down a tree when part of it falls on him, severing his arm. They offer to buy out the family’s business, and resort to sabotaging the Stampers’ logs when Hank refuses. Viv is lonely, and responds to the attention Lee shows her.Įvenwrite and Draeger continue to attempt to convince the Stampers to stop supplying Wakonda Pacific with logs and to join the cause of the union. When Lee arrives, he becomes interested in Hank’s wife, Viv, and decides to sleep with her as retribution. Lee agrees to come back to Oregon, hoping to get revenge on Hank. Lee’s mother Myra seduced Hank when Lee was 16. Lee saw them having sex through a hole in the wall and blames Hank for the affair. Henry has been injured and is unable to work, so his oldest son Hank asks his estranged half-brother, Leland (Lee), to return from college at Yale to help with the logging operation.
Union organizers Draeger and Evenwrite want the Stampers to shut down in solidarity with strikers, but the Stampers refuse. The union loggers go on strike against the Wakonda Pacific Lumber Company, hoping for shorter hours without a reduction in wages. Business is dying, and workers are concerned for their jobs. The recent invention of the gas-powered chainsaw has lessened logging companies’ need for manual labor. The logging industry is suffering because lumber corporations are squeezing out smaller, non-union businesses-like that of the Stampers-as well as larger businesses that union loggers work for.
They are fiercely independent and live by the motto of elder Henry Stamper, “NEVER GIVE A INCH!” (35). The Stamper family of loggers lives alongside the river. Sometimes a Great Notion opens by describing the rainy landscape of the fictional Wakonda Auga River in Oregon. This guide references the Penguin Classics edition (2006). Sometimes a Great Notion was also made into a movie, starring Paul Newman.
He is most famous for his first novel, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962), which was adapted into a classic film of the same title starring Jack Nicholson. Kesey and his counterculture group, the “Merry Pranksters,” were the precursors to the hippies of the late 1960s.
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