Woolly’s grandfather had left the money to Woolly, but a family member had determined Woolly was too unstable to have access to his inheritance. They stole Emmett’s car and drove to New York, intending to visit a camp in the Adirondacks owned by Woolly’s family and take money out of his grandfather’s safe. Emmett’s plan was interrupted when troublemaker Daniel “Duchess” Hewett and mentally and emotionally unstable Wallace “Woolly” Wolcott Martin sneaked out of the same juvenile reform facility in which Emmett had been imprisoned. He dreamed of moving to a place where he could earn a living remodeling houses in disrepair. Emmett had just been released from a juvenile reform facility for the accidental death of another teen. In the novel The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles, when 18-year-old Emmett Watson told his younger brother William “Billy” Watson they needed to make a fresh start, Billy suggested they follow the route their mother took when she abandoned them, along the Lincoln Highway. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Towles, Amor.
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