![]() ![]() Artistic License – History: Cather admits in a footnote that the outbreak of Spanish influenza is placed in the novel several months ahead of the point where the real outbreak struck.Ambiguously Gay: Bobbie Jones the local soda jerk, who is described as "effeminate" and writes poetry and movie scenarios.An Arm and a Leg: Claude meets a man who lost an arm at Cantigny and also has amnesia from a nerve injury.A war story taking place overseas was a departure for Cather, as her previous work (like My Ántonia) was centered around her Nebraska homeland. Finally, Claude finds something bigger than himself-on the battlefields of France.Ĭather based her story in part on the life of a cousin of hers who was killed at Cantigny in 1918. He gets married to childhood sweetheart Enid, but it soon becomes apparent that she doesn't understand him either, and the marriage is a failure. His parents, who are perfectly content being farmers, don't understand Claude's frustrations. Claude is aimless and discontented, frustrated with the limitations of rural life, looking for a purpose. One of Ours is a 1922 novel written by Willa Cather.Ĭlaude Wheeler is a young man growing up in Nebraska in the early 1910s. ![]()
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