Farson’s greater motive though was in simply working as a henchman of the Crimson King, carrying out activities not unlike the disruption caused by the Man in Black. After Roland lost his virginity to a local prostitute, he was sent away from his home of Gilead by his father as a way to protect him from the rebel forces of John Farson.įarson was a political revolutionary who had been causing upheaval in Roland’s world. Young Roland had come across his mother having her affair with the villainous Marten, the event relating back in “The Gunslinger” that led to him becoming a gunslinger ahead of schedule. Via flashback, readers spent the next several hundred pages following the teenage Roland in that tale.
The novel’s focus then shifted for the bulk of its story as Roland recalled the first time that he ran across a ‘thinny’ while still a young gunslinger. After leaving Topeka, the group made camp next to a ‘thinny,’ the name that Roland used to describe holes that had begun appearing between dimensions. This version of Topeka apparently came from the world that existed in Stephen King’s “The Stand” and, as was the case in that world, influenza had killed off much of the population. Eddie Dean surprised everyone by being the person who ultimately defeated Blaine the Mono in his riddle contest, doing so by offering up childish jokes that the computer could not handle.Īfter Blaine short-circuited, Roland and his party found themselves in a strange version of Topeka, Kansas. As promised by Stephen King in the afterward of “The Wastelands,” “Wizard and Glass” opened with the resolution to a cliffhanger.
Roland and two of his teenage gunslinger colleagues rolled into an out-of-the way town as part of a law enforcement group doing a routine check-in and it became apparent that something nefarious was afoot in the town.īefore that flashback began though, there was immediate business to handle. Such an assumption was largely wrong though, as most of “Wizard and Glass” was composed of an old-fashioned western story told in flashback that featured a younger incarnation of the saga’s main protagonist, Roland. With a title like “Wizard and Glass,” readers perhaps assumed that the fourth “Dark Tower” book would feature a continuation of the “Mad Max” meets “Lord of the Rings” narrative that finally moved ahead in the series’ prior book.
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