The best 'Little House' episode is also one of its toughest.
The Big Picture With over 200 episodes and four television specials trailing behind its covered wagon, it's hard to name a single episode of Little House on the Prairie as "the best.
By the time Charles and Caroline come to pick up Mary from school, she has decided to move with Adam to Winoka, South Dakota to open a school for the blind, thus fulfilling her life-long dream of becoming a teacher. But with the town of Walnut Grove all but abandoned after the dispute with the railroads, the Ingalls family decides to move with Mary, setting off to make a new home elsewhere. The episode ends with the Ingalls family joining their fellow townsfolk at the church for Rev.
But the most powerful moments of "I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away" are Charles' responses to Mary's deteriorating state. From the moment Charles learns of Mary's condition, we see a father who feels as if he's failed. His moments with Rev. Alden, Caroline, and later Mary, having to explain to her that she's going blind, is gut-wrenching in every way, yet he plays each scene effortlessly as if Anderson were his legitimate child.
As one of the most arduous decisions that Charles and Caroline ever have to make in the series , this one takes the cake as the toughest, but it all works out for the best in the end. Interestingly, because of Mary's predicament, Charles couldn't care less about the slow decline of Walnut Grove happening around him. He even loses his job, only to tell his friend Jonathan Garvey that all that matters is what's happening with Mary.
As "Part 2," and thus Season 4 of Little House, ends, Mary concludes Rev. Alden's service with a reading of Psalm 15, which reminds the congregation of Walnut Grove that walking uprightly is the only way to live. Mary's own dark night of the soul has shown her the importance of goodness and truth paired with a resilient spirit, which doubles as her newfound motivation for wishing to "save" others as Adam saved her.
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