"Are You All Right?"
This is the final story in Fidelity and it is only about five pages long. It has even less of a point than any of the other stories but does somehow end the book well. It mainly tells of an event between Elton (Mary Penn's husband) and a friend as they check on some neighbors who haven't been heard from in a while. They end up finding them alive and well. However, we find out later that Elton ends up being the one truly in mortal danger, for not long after this he dies. The irony of sorts that this addresses is that Elton and his friend were concerned for their elderly neighbor's lives. Instead, those same neighbors would be attending Elton's funeral within the year. It's a sad, but final ending to Wendell Berry's interesting collection of stories, Fidelity.
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