She remembered Matthew Clark looking at the boy beside him and forming his hands as if to cup them over a woman's breasts when she read,"The golden apples of the sun."They had snickered, and the girls in the back row with them blushed.
They would live with those attitudes all their lives.That's what had discouraged her,knowing that,and she felt compromised and alone, in spite of the outward friend liness of the community.Poetry were not welcome here.The people of Madison County liked to say,composating for their self-imposed sence of culture inferiority,"This is a good place to raise kids." And she always felt like responding,"But is it a good place to raise adults?"
她记得当她朗读“太阳的金苹果”时，马修克拉克双手合成杯状，仿佛正在盖住一个女人的乳房。他们窃笑着，和他们一起坐在后面的女生脸羞得通红。
他们将带着这种态度生活一辈子。这就是让她气馁的原因，她知道这一点，她感到缺乏抵抗力和孤独，尽管邻们表面上很友好。诗歌在这里不受欢迎。麦迪逊县的人喜欢说：“这是一个养育孩子的好地方。”这是他们的文化自卑感的自我加强意识的一部分。她总是想回答：“但那是一个养育大人的好地方吗？”
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