Homer leaves the orphanage, and returns with them to Wally's family's orchard in Heart's Rock, near the Maine coast. Homer, upon learning Wilbur's secret, considers it morally wrong.Īs a young man, Homer befriends a young couple, Candy Kendall and Wally Worthington, who come to St. Wilbur came to this work reluctantly, but is driven by having seen the horrors of back-alley operations. Wilbur's and Homer's lives are complicated by the abortions Wilbur provides. He makes a point of maintaining an emotional distance from the orphans, so that they can more easily make the transition into an adoptive family, but when it becomes clear that Homer is going to spend his childhood at the orphanage, Wilbur trains the orphan as an obstetrician and comes to love him like a son.
Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unwanted pregnancies give birth and then keeping the babies in an orphanage. Homer Wells is shown growing up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood trying to be "of use" as a medical assistant to director Dr. The story relates his early life at Larch's orphanage in Maine and follows Homer as he eventually leaves the nest and comes of age. Wilbur Larch, an obstetrician and abortion provider. The story, set in the pre– and post–World War II era, tells of a young man, Homer Wells, growing up under the guidance of Dr. The Cider House Rules (1985) is a novel by American writer John Irving, a Bildungsroman that was later adapted into a 1999 film and a stage play by Peter Parnell.
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