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''One of Ours'' is a novel by Willa Cather that won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native around the turn of the 20th century. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, he is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood. Nevertheless, Wheeler views himself as a victim of his father's success and his own inexplicable malaise. ==Composition== Cather's cousin Grosvenor (G.P. Cather) was born and raised on the farm that adjoined her own family's, and she combined parts of her own personality with Grosvenor's in the character of Claude. Cather explained in a letter to Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Grosvenor was killed in 1918 in Cantigny, France. Cather learned of his death while reading the newspaper in a hair salon. She wrote:〔 He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and a Silver Star citation for bravery under fire, of which Cather wrote:〔 Cather was unhappy that the novel "will be classed as a war story", which was not her intention. She departed from her previous practice of writing about the western life she knew well to write this story set partly in military life and overseas only because "it stood between me and anything else."〔 Cather was working on the novel during a visit to Canada in the summer of 1919 and finished it in Toronto in 1921.〔David Stouck, "Willa Cather's Canada," in Robert Thacker and Michael A. Peterman, eds., ''Willa Cather's Canadian and Old World Connections'', Cather Studies, vol. 4 (University of Nebraska Press, 1999), (available online )〕 She used her cousin's letters and those of David Hochstein, a New York violinist who served as the model for Claude's wartime friend David Gerhardt. She interviewed veterans and wounded soldiers in hospitals, focusing especially on the experience of rural Nebraskans she profiled in a magazine article, "Roll Call on the Prairie". She visited the French battlefields as well.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「One of Ours」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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