Zusammenfassung
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You will love it if you enjoy road trips, comic scenes in small-town hotels, love stories across social lines, and a sharp, funny eye on how Americans spoke, ate, dressed and drove a century ago.
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What happens when a sheltered Brooklyn girl takes the wheel and heads west to visit cousins without a chauffeur? Free Air, a novel by Sinclair Lewis, follows Claire Boltwood and her ailing father from Minneapolis toward Seattle in a French roadster. It gives you mud, bad hotels, wide prairies, mountain brakes and a young garage man named Milt Daggett who keeps turning up. It begins with the first sticky stretch of Minnesota road.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1Claire Boltwood fights the Minnesota mudFree
- 2The road teaches Claire to like people
- 3Milt Daggett leaves home after one glimpse
- 4Claire sends Milt away and a stranger scares her
- 5A bear, a canyon and a campfire plan
- 6Burned brakes and the tidy man from Brooklyn
- 7Claire finds her nerve at the Pellago Tavern
- 8Comfort and adventure pull Claire in different directions
- 9What the story says about class and free air
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Claire Boltwood fights the Minnesota mud
Free Air opens with Claire Boltwood wrestling a car through prairie gumbo, a mud as thick as glue. She is twenty-three and lives in Brooklyn Heights, and she drives a French roadster called a Gomez-Deperdussin. Her father, worn out by overwork, sits beside her, because his doctor ordered rest and she talked him into driving to Seattle.
The mud wins. Her car drops into a hole beside a cornfield, and a farmer named Adolph Zolzac asks four dollars to pull it out. He breaks his own harness and raises the price. Then a young man in a tin-covered Teal bug arrives, scares Zolzac off by calling himself a deputy sheriff, and tows her free.
He cooks bacon and eggs on a tiny stove and introduces his cat, Vere de Vere. His name is Milt Daggett, and he is also bound for Seattle. Claire learns her first lesson here: the road is hard, but strangers on it will help if she lets them.
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Questions about Freie Luft
What is Free Air by Sinclair Lewis about?
It is a road novel about Claire Boltwood, a sheltered Brooklyn woman, who sets out to drive her father across the northern United States toward Seattle. Along the way she meets Milt Daggett, a small-town garage owner, and both are changed by the trip.
What does the title Free Air mean?
Free Air is the sign over the air hose at a Gopher Prairie garage. Claire adopts it as the motto of her trip, and it comes to stand for freedom from social rules as well as free tire air.
Is Free Air a true story and when does it take place?
It is a made-up story set along roads such as the Yellowstone Trail. The journey takes place in the year before America enters the war with Germany.
Who is Jeff Saxton in Free Air?
Jeff is Claire's polished suitor from Brooklyn Heights. He is thirty-nine, rich, careful and always well dressed, and he stands for the comfortable, orderly life Claire is trying to get away from.
Is Free Air worth reading today?
It is a lively comic romance with a clear route to follow, short chapters and sharp, funny dialogue. Readers who like road stories, car history and satire about class will find a great deal to enjoy.