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This Study Guide consists of approximately 33 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Sweet Hereafter.
Chapter 1 Summary: “Dolores Driscoll” The novel opens with Dolores Driscoll describing in first person what she saw just before the school bus she was driving, which is full of children, was involved in an accident.
Billy Ansel, a Vietnam veteran, a widower, the father of twins killed in the accident, and the only person to witness the accident as it occurred, believes it to have been unpreventable; he is...
Dolores Driscoll. Dolores is a woman in her fifties who drives a school bus for the town of Sam Dent. She is a tall woman with red hair who began driving kids to school when her sons were young.
The Sweet Hereafter. Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.
Nichole Burnell - This character is a fourteen-year-old girl who is confined to a wheelchair after surviving the bus accident. Sam Burnell - This character is domineering in his family but friendly to others and has been sexually abusing his daughter but nobody else knows about it.
The Sweet Hereafter dramatizes the emotional impact of a school-bus accident on the injured survivors, the families of the victims, and the people of the small mountain town of Sam Dent, New...
