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Footprints in Cement
Troy, William | August 14, 1935 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Lucy Gayheart," by Willa Cather. The heroine of the novel is too lovely, too intelligent, too responsive to the call of what is rhetorically designated as life to be content with anything which that period had to offer. She is unable to compromise, and that is the pathos of her situation. That this is not the best writing that has come to us from the writer of "My Antonia," and "A Lost Lady," is as evident from the sentimentally relaxed rhythms as from the stereotyped imagery. What it reveals even more profoundly is how completely this writer now permits the enthusiasm of her sensibility to conquer over her intelligence.

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LUCY Gayheart (Book); BOOKS; CATHER, Willa, 1873-1947; CONTENTMENT; SATISFACTION; SENTIMENTALISM
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