![]() ![]() We are also privy to the town’s dark past, specifically the long, private insanity of Hubie Marsten and his wife, ending in a violent murder-suicide. In these initial pages, isolation emerges itself as King’s main theme – not only the isolation of the town from the larger world (a point King underlines specifically in several passages), but the townspeople’s isolation from each other. Immersing the reader in the lives of the townspeople of ’Salem’s Lot, King uncovers the dark private lives of those who live in a supposedly idyllic small town: child abuse and neglect, infidelity, gossip mongering, schoolyard bullies, and psychological and physical abuse abound. We are aware from the start that something is wrong with the eponymous town, but King deftly skirts the specifics, focusing instead on ’Salem’s Lot’s general unrest. It is difficult to imagine the initial response to ’Salem’s Lot.
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