Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 Summary

The Country of the Pointed Firs is a collection of vignettes by an unnamed female narrator residing in the fictional town of Dunnet Landing, Maine, during one summer season around the end of the nineteenth century. The stories weave a web of the relationships and experiences of the young woman as she stays in this quaint town while working on a writing project that must be completed by the nd of the summer.

The narrator of the storyhas come to Dunnet Landing in June planning to stay for the summer and has chosen the small village because of its sense of neighborhood and the pleasant cottages with their windows that appear to be "knowing" eyes that look toward the sea.

The young woman takes residence in the home of Mrs. Todd, a local woman about sixty-year- old, who provides rooms for...