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Lightning-Rod Man, The
Lightning-Rod Man, The
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Short Stories
 
Publisher :  Listen & Live
Author :  Herman Melville
Narrator :  Patrick Lawlor
 
Length :  21 minutes (Unabridged)
 
Physical Price :  $5.95
Download Price :  $5.49
 
Format :  Downloadable MP3
 
© 2010 Listen & Live
After spending the summer of 1853 in the Berkshire Mountains, where he supposedly had a real life encounter with a lightning-rod salesman, Melville published “The Lightning-Rod Man."

At the end of this short story, the lightning-rod salesman is exposed for the fraud that he is. However, that will not keep his successors from fanning out to the Middle West, where lightning storms abound and farmers were gullible.

On another level, the story can be interpreted as a confrontation between Good and Evil. Through description and diction, the narrator is understood as a follower of God, someone who believes in The Almighty watching over him.

On the other hand, the lightning-rod man is seen as a negative character, someone who only has faith in the product he's peddling.

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