![]() The story deals with a number of ironies that Cather was beginning to face, ranging from a duplicitous sense of home to an idea of wholeness in an immigrant’s return to the land.Īs a young man of nineteen working on the family farm, Claude Wheeler enjoys and finds an easy refreshment in his natural surroundings. ![]() Interestingly enough, Cather’s discussion of the Nebraskan landscape in Part I and the French countryside in Part II reveal that her protagonist Claude is in fact redeemed in the landscape of France, not in America, as with earlier novels. ![]() Critics responded that it was clichéd, recycling a sappy tale of glory for the greater good. ![]() A Pulitzer winner, it is often touted as a moving story of war, glory, and martyrdom. ![]() After publishing her pioneer trilogy and numerous short stories, Willa Cather turned her writer’s craft to the effects of World War I with One of Ours (1922). ![]()
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