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Quote #4
I have deliberately turned my back on the house. It is three rooms, just like the one that burned, except the roof is tin; they don't make shingle roofs anymore. There are no real windows, just some holes cut in the sides, like the portholes in a ship, but not round and not square, with rawhide holding the shutters up on the outside. This house is in a pasture, too, like the other one. (14)
Wow, ending up in a house that's a lot like your previous house that burned down must be a pretty weird, perhaps even painful, experience. Of course, the narrator and Maggie might not have had much choice in where they would live after the fire given their financial circumstances. But might there also be reasons they'd want to live in a house similar to their old one?