A History of American Literature

Making It New: 1900–1945 407 explanation, something to help him feel his life is not just decline and waste. What he finds to he ...

408 Making It New: 1900–1945 romantic egotist, this time a Hollywood producer, The Last Tycoon. The Last Tycoon was unfinished w ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 409 and the author then switches from the story of one to the story of the other. Each chapter begins w ...

410 Making It New: 1900–1945 that bear down on the lives of his characters. Along with these two kinds of narrative intervention ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 411 husband in the bunk above, listening to the woman in her agony, and cutting his throat. “Why did he ...

412 Making It New: 1900–1945 (1941) commemorates three days of a guerilla action in the Spanish Civil War and celebrates the rep ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 413 The experience of war was also vital here. Like so many of his generation, Hemingway learned from t ...

414 Making It New: 1900–1945 The first question asked, implicitly, of all the characters in The Sun Also Rises is, is he or she ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 415 daydream: “Oh Jake,” she tells him, “we could have had such a damned good time together.” His reply ...

416 Making It New: 1900–1945 Not only that, every exploration of identity in his fiction tends to become an exploration of famil ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 417 I might have to its absolute top.” Sartoris was originally written as Flags in the Dust; it was rej ...

418 Making It New: 1900–1945 The Sound and the Fury,” he once admitted), and his personal favorite because it was, he declared, ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 419 different strategy, another attempt to know her. Essentially, the difference in each section is a m ...

420 Making It New: 1900–1945 section, is eventually tempted to discard language altogether. Benjy resorted, as he had to, to a h ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 421 first hundred years of the American republic but little really indigenous drama. Even a touring gro ...

422 Making It New: 1900–1945 habits of the time that favored circumlocution and cliché, jocularity, sentiment, pseudo-refinement ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 423 playwriting a few years later. He scored a huge success with The Front Page (1928), a smart, satiri ...

424 Making It New: 1900–1945 realistic war play, What Price Glory? (1924), he wrote, among many other things, a series of blank- ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 425 (1935) by Odets. Two other characters in another play by Odets, Night Music (1940), sum up the posi ...

426 Making It New: 1900–1945 “I want the whole city to hear it – fresh blood, arms. We got ‘em. We’re glad we’re living.” It is ...