Smith writes an interesting study about the mythmaking and consequential ‘soul history’ term that is represented in Jim Harrisons, “Legends of the Fall”. Through a show of an excerpt, Smith goes back and forth between Harrison’s legend and American literature to emphasize the author’s main points about the fundamental absurdity of people’s actions, and the observational concerns in the history of American consciousness. Smith connects the author’s idea of ‘soul history’ to American history and explains how this perpetuates the myth of the American
