Angle of Repose Themes

Sometimes your family members can be your best friends in the whole entire world; at other times, they might as well be your worst enemies. If you don't believe us on that one, just ask Lyman Ward,...

A historian by trade, Lyman Ward spends his life in the past in Angle of Repose. He's actually more comfortable in the past than in the present. Unfortunately for him, however, this love affair wit...

Spanning from the early days of the Wild West to the rollicking 1970s, Angle of Repose is a firsthand lesson in the development of the modern era. We see the Industrial Age, which transforms rural...

Susan Ward is such a classy broad that we're pretty sure Tom Jones wrote "She's a Lady" about her. Having grown up as the "poor" kid in the world of wealthy New York intellectuals, Susan actually t...

In Angle of Repose, love is shown to be a lot more complicated than all those sappy Beatles love songs would have you believe. Sometimes, it can be a trickster, compelling you to act in ways that a...

Susan Ward, the heroine of Angle of Repose, is one down chick. She's an artist and writer in an era when women were expected to be nothing more than housewives. She lives in the Wild West at a time...

Oliver Ward is one ambitious dude. He's got no other choice: you've got to be on your grind if you want to survive in the Wild West of Angle of Repose. While Oliver works harder than anyone in the...

Although it follows several generations of the Ward family, Angle of Repose is held together by one common feeling: isolation. There's the isolation of Susan Ward, who moves thousands of miles away...

Here's a shocker for you: life in the Wild West wasn't quite like it's depicted in cowboy movies. For example, you don't usually hear about how mega-wealthy businessmen used shady labor practices t...