No battlefield or shattered country he had seen was as ugly as this world would be if men like his brother Bayliss controlled it altogether. Until the war broke out, he had supposed they did control it; his boyhood had been clouded and enervated by that... One of Ours - Seite 419von Willa Cather - 1922 - 459 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Joseph R. Urgo - 1995 - 228 Seiten
...like a business proposition," controlled by small-minded men made emblematic by his brother Bayliss. "Until the war broke out, he had supposed they did...boyhood had been clouded and enervated by that belief" (339). The force that animates the United States is the spirit of free enterprise, the businessperson's... | |
| Janis P. Stout - 2000 - 408 Seiten
...this, as there was in the war pictures one saw at home" (307), but still insists on believing that "no battlefield or shattered country he had seen was...be if men like his brother Bayliss controlled it" (339), the sentiment is hyberbolic, belying the human cost as well as the visual ugliness of the battlefield.... | |
| Celia Malone Kingsbury - 2002 - 220 Seiten
...Claude's sense of frustration is so great, his idealism about the war so strong, that he believes that "[n]o battlefield or shattered country he had seen...like his brother Bayliss controlled it altogether" (339). Burdened by no sense of medieval honor or responsibility (unlike Teddy Ashburnham) and no sense... | |
| Steven Trout - 2006 - 339 Seiten
...adventure for the young," Claude, transformed by his experiences in France, remains convinced that "no battlefield or shattered country he had seen was...like his brother Bayliss controlled it altogether." Even distant artillery fire Claude finds comforting because the sounds give him "a feeling of confidence... | |
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