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The Sculptor's Funeral
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In the fictional small town of Sand City, Kansas, the body of Harvey Merrick, a famed sculptor, is brought back to his parents' house.Only Jim Laird, Harvey's old friend, and Henry Steavens, his student, have any real emotion.While the mother cries out in overdone and insincere grief, Steavens and Laird remark on the sculptor's harsh upbringing, and
wonder how he ever made it out of the town.Later, the mother, showing her cruelty, yells at her maid for forgetting to do the salad dreing.Before the funeral, when the town's leading citizens make fun of Merrick for his education and eastern lifestyle, Laird then lashes out at them, attacking their hypocrisy in criticizing Harvey for faults of which they themselves are guilty, then exposing the corruption of their ideals, along with their practice of usury, gambling, shootings and so forth.Only Harvey escaped the corruption, and Laird alleges that this was why the town's leaders hated him.The next day, Laird, who is disgusted with himself for never having done what Harvey did(find a life elsewhere), is too drunk to attend the funeral.The story ends with the notation that Laird dies of a cold shortly thereafter.
