Wright Morris | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 1 page of analysis & critique of Wright Morris.

Wright Morris | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 1 page of analysis & critique of Wright Morris.
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SOURCE: A review of The Huge Season, in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 2794, September 16, 1955, p. 546.

In the following unfavorable review of The Huge Season, the reviewer concludes that Morris's “pretentiously cultivated climate contains more air than imagination.”

The Huge Season is a kind of study of the effects of hero-worship, and for a hero Lawrence seems as good a name as any other, though in this book the name is more apt than the character is convincing. Lawrence is the son of a Barbed Wire tycoon, compact of the usual virtues and vices of such sons, who soon takes himself off to Europe to see the sights and get the feel of things, including Life; he ends by getting a horn in the groin from a very Spanish bull. We see Lawrence as a sort of bright sun, round whom the lesser planets, in the person of Foley...

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