The Lamberts' Farm

During Sapo's childhood, he spends much of his time during the summer holidays at the local farm of a family called The Lamberts. Malone describes the farm in bleak terms: it was in a "hollow," a small valley that was "flooded in winter" and "burnt to a cinder" during the summertime (195). The farm lead to a "fine meadow," but Malone notes that the farm did not include the meadow, and that it instead belonged to the "other peasants living at a distance" (195). Most of the action at the farm, however, has little to do with farming, and is instead devoted to descriptions of Big Lambert's pig slaughtering, or simply Sapo's observations regarding the Lamberts' family dynamic.

The House of Saint John of God

The House of Saint John of God is the institution that Macmann stays at in the latter half of the novel, where he...