59 pages 1 hour read

Percival Everett

The Trees

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics.

Chapters 43-64

Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapter 43 Summary

Gertrude brings Damon to a restaurant outside of Money called Bluegum. Damon notes that the restaurant is busy, and Gertrude cryptically tells him that everyone in Bluegum is friendly.

Chapter 44 Summary

Daisy tells Charlene that when she was cleaning up the blood at the scene of her husband’s murder, she found a little cross figurine. Charlene found one too. They keep the crosses on them. They are confused because their husbands didn’t own any crosses. They wonder if the dead Black man left them there.

Chapter 45 Summary

Detective Hind drives with Ed and Jim to Money. They agree that they all joined the force so they could avoid having only white people be the only people licensed to carry weapons as law enforcement agents. A Mississippi police officer pulls them over. When they show the officer their badges, he says he should have just shot them. They continue with their drive.

Related Titles

By Percival Everett

Study Guide

logo

Erasure

Percival Everett

Erasure

Percival Everett

Study Guide

logo

James

Percival Everett

James: A Novel

Percival Everett