The Yellow Birds
Where does Bartle live at the end of the novel and why?
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Bartle moves to a cabin in the mountains. He wants to be forgotten and to forget. He does not want to look out at the earth at it opens to the horizon. He does not want to live in the desert. He does not want to live in the prairie or the plains. He does not want to see anything unbroken. He wants to look out at the mountains and have his view obstructed by a group of trees. He wants to see trees that break up and fix the earth into parcels small enough that they can be contended with.