Love Medicine Section 10, Chapter 1

Lyman Lamartine

• Here's Section 10: The Red Convertible (1974). Yeah, these sections are kind of like chapters, right?
• Now we're inside Lyman Lamartine's mind. It seems that he and his brother Henry had owned a car together before Henry went off to war.
• Lyman reminisces about life with Henry before he left… and then life after he returned from Vietnam. Apparently, Henry came back quite different.
• In a ruse to get his brother interested in something, Lyman ended up banging up their mutually owned car. The plan worked: he managed to get Henry interested in working on the repairs.
• Once the car was fixed, they took it out together. They seemed to have a nice time and ended up talking a bit.
• Then, Henry decided to go jump in the river near where they had been sitting. And then suddenly he was gone.
• Lyman went in after him, but apparently Henry was nowhere to be found. So, Lyman put the car in the water.