Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers

Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers is a short story about a man named Ramage. In the beginning, Ramage was a well-liked man who arrived on the island two years ago. He was well dressed in a white suit, red cummerbund, and solar topee. He was a very well respected and sought after man. "Miss Lambton, who had been a fellow passenger from Barbados, reported that he was certainly a gentleman and also a king among men when it came to looks" (Jean Rhys, Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers). Ramage said that he came to the island with the intent to by an Estate that was as remote as possible. Ramage wanted to be far away from everyone for some reason. Ramage ended up buying an older Spanish Castle. Ramage married a colored girl named Isla. Then things started to get very strange. People have seen Ramage and his wife lying naked on the Verandah in the hammock. This was in plain view of other people.  Ramage was starting to become a very unpopular person in the town. Everyone started to talk about the odd things that he does. It got to the point that people started to throw stones ar Ramage's house. He didn't know why people disliked him so much now.  One night a group of men and women went to Ramage's house to throw stones. He was out on the verandah in a white suit and got hit by one of the stones. He then went back inside to grab and shotgun and started firing. The police later came and found Ramage dead in his house. "He was evidently mad, poor man sitting in the sun with no clothes on much worse might have happened"  (Jean Rhys, Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers). 

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