The boats are coming from across the sea, some with freezers on board–and they are raping the sea. Personal loss for Adelaide and loss of his livelihood, and his identity, for Sylvanus, as the fish are disappearing.
Their marriage is one of growing love, and of loss. She married him to get away from her mother and the care of yet another baby–and moved to an even smaller outport, close by boat but not often travelled. It didn’t seem to be a choice, either, when she agreed to marry Sylvanus Now. These were the days of plenty–plenty of fish and plenty of back-breaking work. Adelaide was out to work salting fish with the other women. Her harried mother expects Adelaide to help care for the children–Adelaide, who excelled at school and wanted to continue.īut in an outport village, in Newfoundland in the 1950s, the choice was not hers to make. Adelaide is the oldest of a seemingly endless line of children.
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