After Rose sells Burbank hides without permission, Phil becomes enraged with her, as he had planned to use the hides to braid a rope for Peter. Phil, however, unwittingly becomes enthralled by Peter and comes to admire his confidence and curiosity. The confrontation is overheard by Peter.Īfter Phil witnesses Peter being humiliated by the fellow ranchers but choosing to ignore their jeers, he decides to take Peter under his wing in order to pry him away from Rose, scheming in the hope that George will eventually divorce her. When she makes a final attempt to make peace with Phil by asking him why he dislikes her, he reveals that he knows about her drinking. Rose secretly begins to drink to cope with blinding headaches she develops because of the tense living situation between her and Phil, and forms a habit of stealing from George's liquor cabinet. He approves of his mother's relationship with George but immediately finds himself antagonized by Phil after he accidentally stumbles across Phil naked in a private pond he uses for bathing. Peter temporarily takes up residence at a boarding school in a nearby town but is brought out to the Burbank ranch during summer break.
He does all he can to make life unpleasant for Rose, who senses Phil's subtle animosity and struggles to adjust to her new life. Rose soon moves into the ranch house with George, and Phil takes an instant dislike to her, believing her to be a conniving gold digger. Instead George announces they have secretly wed.
Hearing of this, Phil writes to his mother hoping to break the two up. When George goes to pay the bill he finds Rose weeping and he begins to visit her to make amends. While driving their cattle into the small town of Beech, Phil offends the widow Rose Gordon, a local businesswoman and hotelier whose doctor husband had committed suicide, when he makes a cruel comment towards her teenage son, Peter, calling him a sissy. George is his less notable younger brother. Phil is an incredibly gifted man who is talented in all aspects of his life and is highly educated but chooses to live as a rough rancher. In Montana in 1925, bachelor brothers Phil and George Burbank run the family ranch together after their parents retire to Salt Lake City. In 2021, the novel was adapted into a film of the same name which went on to be nominated for several Oscars and renewed interest in the novel. Phil looks with disdain at George's new wife, Rose, and her son Pete, after which dramatic events begin to unfold. The story deals with bachelor brothers Phil and George, who live on a ranch in Montana, and the events following George's marriage.
The Power of the Dog is a 1967 novel of Western fiction written by American author Thomas Savage.
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