Although the land on which the Nebraska farm boy Claude Wheeler
lives is settled, he himself has inherited the pioneer spirit of
adventure, the frontiersman's purpose, and the settler's sense of
idealism. In "One of Ours," Willa Cather explores the dissonance
between Claude's attitudes and his physical reality and studies how
this conflict affects him. Drawing on her own family's experience
of the war through her cousin G. P. Cather, who fought in World War
I, Cather observes how an otherwise misdirected young man could
find purpose and meaning in war and how his death would affect his
family's memories of him. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1922,
"One of Ours" paints Claude as a young man who seeks an escape from
a conventional and unfulfilling life through the realization of
"something splendid" in his military experience in Europe. This
Willa Cather Scholarly Edition puts "One of Ours" in a new and
revealing context. The novel is edited according to standards set
by the Committee for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language
Association and presents the full range of biographical,
historical, and textual information on the novel.
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