One of Ours by Willa Cather Discussion

 


Discussion 
March 28, 2022
South Sioux City Public Library 
Meeting Room 
2121 Dakota Avenue
South Sioux City Public Library 
2121 Dakota Avenue
3:00 p.m.
Refreshments Served
All are welcome!

Summary:  Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her ardor for missionary work, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to. It is only when his country enters the First World War that Claude finds what he has been searching for all his life.

Discussion Questions
 https://www.willacather.org/sites/default/files/files/6259/one_of_ours_discussion_questions.pdf 

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