![]() ![]() When Claude’s father buys a farm in Colorado, leaving Claude to manage the homestead, he feels himself trapped by his family and the responsibility of land-owning. ![]() Claude’s lack of excitement and desire to indulge his ideals compels him to want to leave his school and hometown for a more metropolitan scene. “It wasn’t American to explain oneself, you didn’t have to!” (68) He also finds his family, especially his mother and brother, to be too religious and lacking in passion. While he loves the land and his immigrant farmer neighbors, he does not get on well with his family.Ĭather explores Claude’s desire to escape his rural family whom he finds uncommunicative, as they view discussing one’s opinions as pompous, something only politicians do. He feels contradictorily towards his home life, “both loved and hated to come home” (70). Claude attends a Christian college but would rather attend the State University in Lincoln, as he finds his classes and professors dull. ![]() Claude lives more in his head than with his body, a temperament not conducive to a life of long days and hard work on a farm. ![]() Willa Cather’s novel, One of Ours, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, tells the coming-of-age story of Claude Wheeler, the son of a wealthy farmer with an easy life and a head full of ideas living in Frankfort, Nebraska. ![]()
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