"Blindfold" by Orrick Johns is a story from the early 1900's that is about how people connect and the rules of society, mainly through the life of Ellen Sydney, who is tough and trying to figure out her spot in the Meadowburn family and her bond with a young boy named Potter Osprey. We first meet Ellen taking care of her new garden, showing she likes nature and taking care of things. We get a peek into the Meadowburn house, where Ellen is kind of like family but also treated like a servant. Her talks with Potter Osprey show they're becoming friends. They have innocent chats about school, life dreams while dealing with being in different social classes. As the story goes on, being loyal, the roles we play in society, and secret wishes start to cast a shadow over their interactions.
Blindfold
By Orrick Johns
In a world of different social classes and hidden desires, a timeless bond is formed between a determined woman and a curious young boy.
Summary
About the AuthorOrrick Glenday Johns was an American poet and playwright. He was one of the earliest modernist free-verse poets in Greenwich Village in 1913-1915 and associated with the artist's colony at Grantwood, New Jersey, where Others: A Magazine of the New Verse was founded and published by Alfred Kreymborg in 1915. Johns's work "Olives," a series of fourteen small poems appeared in the first issue of July 1915. He is part of a coterie of poets and authors sometimes called the "Others" group who were contributors to the magazine or residents at the colony and included: William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Ezra Pound, Conrad Aiken, Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot, Amy Lowell, H.D., Djuna Barnes, Man Ray, Skipwith Cannell, Lola Ridge, Marcel Duchamp, and Fenton Johnson (poet). Johns is also associated with poets like Vachel Lindsay and Sara Teasdale. and the dramatist Zoe Akins.
Orrick Glenday Johns was an American poet and playwright. He was one of the earliest modernist free-verse poets in Greenwich Village in 1913-1915 and associated with the artist's colony at Grantwood, New Jersey, where Others: A Magazine of the New Verse was founded and published by Alfred Kreymborg in 1915. Johns's work "Olives," a series of fourteen small poems appeared in the first issue of July 1915. He is part of a coterie of poets and authors sometimes called the "Others" group who were contributors to the magazine or residents at the colony and included: William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Ezra Pound, Conrad Aiken, Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot, Amy Lowell, H.D., Djuna Barnes, Man Ray, Skipwith Cannell, Lola Ridge, Marcel Duchamp, and Fenton Johnson (poet). Johns is also associated with poets like Vachel Lindsay and Sara Teasdale. and the dramatist Zoe Akins.
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