Willa Cather

“All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development” this was a quote made by Friedrich Engels. Social class plays an important role in developing one’s role in society. An individual of a lower social class generally aspires to improve their status through gaining wealth or attaining certain goals in their life. A person in a higher social class is more apt to do everything in their power to hold onto their position, while…

speaks of everything that America was built on; Faith, family, and immigration to name just a few. To put it in excerpt form, “At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep” (Cather 51). That was the hope and it still is for many Americans today; to return America to the strong power that it once was; without all of the racism, violence, bloodshed, and general unpleasantness that one could find on nearly every street…

religion that are being taught. The influence of people’s ideals shapes their behaviour as a person. The passion an individual has for their values exposes their true self and what they ultimately believe in. In the short story “Paul’s Case”, Willa Cather demonstrates how different ideals can influence people’s behavior. In the story,…

In Willa Cather’s “A Wagner Matinee”, Georgiana Carpenter conforms to the pressures and expectations of society, as she sacrifices her prestigious career as teacher at the Boston Conservatory to marry a farmer. Throughout the story, the reader is exposed to…

less than 80 days, also may have spoken with the women. While her actual meetings with the 19th Century Club were not recorded, Maude Burrows was able to get an interview with her for the Kearney Hub. The club invited notable Nebraskan’s author Willa Cather to attend a meeting and she came and…

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The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The biographer Richard Cordell notes that the book was influenced by Maugham's study of science and his work as a houseman at St Thomas' Hospital. The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 – March 1925). Beginning in May 1925, it was serialised…