# Endnotes explained — The Devil’s Pool

> Chapter companion for The Devil’s Pool by George Sand.

## What happens

The chapter contains endnotes referencing themes of toil, sorrow, poverty, and death, as well as a note on a circuitous road taken to avoid insult.

## Themes in this chapter

### Death and Mortality

The endnote explicitly references death as the one who calls after toil and sorrow.

### Social Class and Inequality

The mention of 'the bitter bread of poverty' highlights class-based suffering.

## Key lines

> In toil and sorrow thou shalt eat The bitter bread of poverty. After the burden and the heat, Lo! it is Death who calls for thee.

You will labor and grieve, consuming the harsh sustenance of poverty, and after enduring hardship, death will summon you.

_This endnote encapsulates themes of suffering and mortality._

> This is the road, which, diverging from the principal street at the entrance of villages, makes a circuit about them. Persons who are in dread of receiving some well deserved insult, are supposed to take this route to escape attention.

This path branches off from the main village street and loops around; those fearing justified insult take it to avoid notice.

_The note describes a bypass used to evade public shame._

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