Free Air Chapter 2 - Claire Escapes From Respectability

In which Claire Boltwood, a young woman of Brooklyn Heights used to genteel leisure and social trappings, finds herself frustrated by the conventional prospects offered to her and resolves to take her ailing father on a wide and arduous journey westward. Amidst the unfamiliar vastness and rustic challenges of the countryside, she confronts the humbling realities of self-reliance when their car becomes stuck in the mud, leading to an encounter with a humble farming family whose stoic lives contrast sharply with her own.