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Rachel and the Stranger
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Rachel and the Stranger is a 1948 film directed by Norman Foster.The time setting is vague, but references to the "Northwest Territory" and the Shawnee being on the warpath suggest the 1820s. David Harvey (William Holden) is a frontier farmer, who at the beginning of the film has lost his wife Susan to "fever", leaving David a widower with a 12-year-old son, Davey.David feels that their rustic home needs a woman for housekeeping and to give Davey lessons, so he goes to the local settlement to find a wife. The only likely candidate is a "bondwoman" (indentured servant) named Rachel (Loretta Young). David pays $22 ($18 down and "four owing") to liberate Rachel from indentured servitude, and makes her his wife.Only it's not quite clear whether or not Rachel is liberated from servitude. In fact, she continues to act as a servant to the Harveys, with David making no effort to be friendly or warm with her at all. Rachel grows to be quite unhappy in an In Name Only marriage. Enter David's old friend, Jim Fairways (Robert Mitchum), an itinerant woodsman and hunter, who courted Susan back in the day. Jim quickly picks up on the strained nature of Rachel and David's marriage, and makes a play for Rachel—which leads David to admit to his own feelings.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Arc Symbol: Susan ordered a metronome, which came all the way from France, and which David does not collect from the post office until he goes to the fort, moths after Susan died. The metronome continues to be a symbol of Susan, as both David and Davey pick it up and sometimes start it ticking when thinking of her. At the end of the film, the metronome is shown to have been destroyed in the fire, symbolizing the moment when David mentally put his first wife to rest and moved forward to a new life with Rachel. | |
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Determined Homesteader / Determined Homesteader's Wife: The film ends with the farm burned to the ground and David and Rachel having basically nothing but the spinet (a sort of mini-piano), which miraculously survived. But they'll keep going, and the villagers promise to help David rebuild. | |
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