Greenleaf
...areer of their own. Wesley is described as a thin, bald, intellectual who did not like anything. He drove twenty miles everyday to a second-rate university where he taught, which he did not like. Now his brother Scofield is the total opposite of Wesley, it is said that the only thing they did have in common was neither cared about what happened to the farm. Scofield was a business man, he sold insurance, not just any insurance but he sold insurance that only Negroes bought. He was known as the “policy man” by the black community. His mother was very disgruntled by this fact, knowing this he would loudly shout to company that he was the “best negroe- insurance salesman in the country”. Neither of the boys were married, but Scofield would tease Mrs. May by saying that when she died he would get married to a nice fat girl like Mrs. Greenleaf that would take over the farm. So upon hearing this, Mrs. May changed her will so that if the boys married they cold not leave the farm to their wives. Now Mrs. Greenleaf was a fat, dirty woman who did not take care of care of her family nor her house. She was one of the neighbors close by and the wife of her employee, Mr. Greenleaf. Mrs. Greenleaf would spend all of her time doing “prayer healing”. That is, taking clippings of bad stories out of the paper and burring them in the woods. She would then do some ritual over them. Her husband worked for Mrs. May and was always had to be told more than once to do something before he would actually do it. The conflicts of this story was mostly man vs man and man vs nature. Throughout most of the story there is a bull roaming around the farm eating the shrubbery and taunting the animals. Later in the story we discover that the owner of the bull is actually the Greenleafs’ boys, O.T. and E.T., who lives at a nice farm that was partially provided by the government because they were sergeants in the army. They let the bull go because it smashed u...