# So Big — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for So Big by Edna Ferber.

- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/i.md): Selina Peake, living in a boarding house with her father Simeon, visits her friend Julie Hempel. She returns home to find her father has been killed by a stray bullet in a gambling house. The chapter then reflects on Sel
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/ii.md): Selina Peake travels to High Prairie to begin teaching at the Dutch school, accompanied by Klaas Pool. She marvels at the beauty of the cabbage fields, comparing them to jewels and Persian patches, which amuses Klaas. Th
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/iii.md): Selina arrives at the Klaas Pool farmhouse in High Prairie, meeting Maartje Pool and her two daughters, Geertje and Jozina. She is shown to her bedroom, where Maartje reveals a centuries-old Dutch bride's chest containin
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/iv.md): Selina endures the harsh winter mornings at the Pool farm, refusing to dress behind the kitchen stove like the others. She battles the cold, the frozen water, and her icy corset, even drawing a demon face on the parlor s
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/v.md): Selina attends church and a box social, where she first notices Pervus DeJong and the Widow Paarlenberg. She bids on and wins Pervus's basket, leading to a conversation in which she offers to teach him arithmetic and rea

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- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [Chapter VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/ix.md)
- [Selina Takes the Reins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/x.md)
- [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/xii.md)
- [Chapter XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/xiii.md)
- [Chapter XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/xiv.md)
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/xv.md)
- [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/xvi.md)
- [Chapter XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/xvii.md)
- [Chapter XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/xviii.md)
- [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/xix.md)
- [Chapter XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/xx.md)
- [Chapter XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/so_big_se/chapters/xxi.md)

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