Notebooks and Secrets

As we have yet to discuss Loving in class I feel I won't have much to contribute in this post. However, I am very interested in Eldon's note books. There appears to be a great deal of information in them about the running of the estate and various important people. I was both entertained and curious during the scenes where Raunce is reading and trying to employ the information he finds in them. I found the scene where Raunce misapplies the information in the books on pages 38 and 39 in an attempt to receive a tip very amusing. That scene also reveals some aspects of Raunce's character. Beyond being an ambitious man (with the confines of his station) he has no problem scraping for the upper classes to glean favor and tips. I'm trying to decide if Raunce is a proud man or not.

            On pages 48 and 49 I appears, and I may be misreading this, that Eldon may have been cooking the books by cutting corners and pocketing the savings. Sentences like "Eldon never credited her with the empties" (49) and references to being ready for questions are, as Raunce puts it, "suggestive."