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Willa Cather's One of Ours: In Distant Effigy

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From: Legacy
Date: 19971031
Author:Anonymous

Willa Cather's One of Ours: In Distant Effigy

Since the publication in 1921 of One of Ours, no aspect of the narrative has drawn more critical attention than Claude Wheeler's deep rapport with a war of unprecedented destruction. The "rough-necks' own miracle," as Claude calls the war, feel s to him like an act of divine intervention (253). It transfigures a muted and thwarted young farmer into a military hero, whose final moment is spent on an elevated parapet articulating for his men the whereabouts of a German advance which they, dug into their protective trenches, can neither clearly see ...

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