ENG215H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fellah, Canadian Literature, Existentialism
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In both stories the prairie is personified as a menacing force, but also familiar and a source of meaning for the characters prairie realism, influenced 20th century canadian literature. Grove and ross both display sympathy and sensitivity towards the women/wives of farmers on the prairie. The difficulty of bringing order/conquering the prairie but also depicts the domestic aspect of their life. Elizabeth"s dream of life on the farm and how we are invited to contrast it with her reality. Though they seem very negative contrast with pg. She sees assessing her happiness as a luxury, reflection of the culture she lives in. The work of the close reading is to assign it the meaning that the passage has. She is described as bony elizabeth is too accepting of her life, not reflecting on her happiness. While walt reflects on the futility of their work, she prefers to.
