![]() ![]() Claude and his mother fervently follow the events. During this period, Europe is ablaze with World War I. Eventually, Enid leaves Claude to care for her missionary sister who is ill in China, and Claude is somewhat relieved to see her go. ![]() Enid tries to convert her new husband to her many other causes such as Prohibition in Nebraska. During this period, he marries a childhood friend, Enid, in what turns out to be a marriage of convenience rather than love. When Claude’s father expands the Wheeler farming interests, Claude must leave college to return to his roots and operate the Wheeler farm. While attending a church-affiliated college his parents have selected for him, he befriends a German family (the Ehrlichs’) who open his eyes to other possibilities in life. Although he is a skilled farmer, Claude believes his destiny lies elsewhere. Everything he does seems to turn out wrong, at least in his own mind. ![]() The son of well to do parents, Claude is troubled by his apparent inability to find purpose with his life. Claude Wheeler, the subject of the novel, is a young man growing up on a Nebraska farm. He was the first officer from Nebraska killed in World War I. Cather’s wartime letters home to his mother. This work had been inspired by reading her cousin G.P. This 1923 Pulitzer Prize winning novel was written by Willa Cather. ![]()
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