This patrilineal bloodline ends with Tate Dutton. The Dutton family, while kept together by its matriarchs (all Dutton spouses appear to outlast their husbands-with the exception of Evelyn), is patrilineal. Beth was sterilized during her abortion procedure. Warning, however: Everything to follow includes spoilers for 1883, 1923, and Yellowstone.įor the purpose of this written analysis, we’re focusing on each generation of Dutton by blood, which mostly comprises the men so far, no Dutton born female has given birth to the next generation. There is some stuff to write about, though, so stick around. Trying to explain everyone in writing-what with all the Johns and Jacks and variations thereof-would be even more confusing. Family values.Īnother similarity: a lot of goddamn characters. There are other reasons to compare the Sheridan-verse to Steinbeck (and we’re not saying writer Taylor Sheridan is a modern-day Steinbeck, but we’re also not not saying he’s some modern iteration of the American writer)-legacy, generational strife, morality on the edge of urban expansion, and people being terrible versions of themselves and enacting cruelty on others. It Steinbeck terms: that’s a pretty big wedge. It’s believed we’ll be getting stories for each generation. Now over five seasons and encompassing (so far) two spinoff series, the Yellowstone universe takes the saga of the Dutton family back seven generations. And, therefore, the best stories are long stories. The best stories are these, Steinbeck thinks, the ones that stick around for a while, like a wedge in one’s life. But a long book-in fact a very long book, maybe his own East of Eden-sticks around for a while. John Steinbeck once equated a book with a “wedge driven into a man’s personal life.” The shorter the book, wrote Steinbeck, the more easily removed the wedge.
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