Thomas Wolfe and Robert Morgan: influence and correspondences
In an unpublished memoir, Morgan describes the altercation that followed his father's buying a rifle with the pole bean money he had promised to deposit in the post office savings account Fannie had established as the house fund: "The quarrel between Mama and Daddy went on all that day and...
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| Published in: | The Thomas Wolfe review 2014, Vol.38 (1/2), p.54 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | In an unpublished memoir, Morgan describes the altercation that followed his father's buying a rifle with the pole bean money he had promised to deposit in the post office savings account Fannie had established as the house fund: "The quarrel between Mama and Daddy went on all that day and night, and for several days and nights afterward. Morgan muses, when admitting that he has "never stressed enough" the impact ofWolfe's "realistic detail, the street corners, the smells, the paperboys, the greasy spoons, the tour - ists, the stores, and seasons passing" on him, that a significant difference between them is that Wolfe was a town boy, while Morgan "grew up in relative isolation in the country," not knowing "the back alleys, the gossip, the politics of a small city" that Wolfe knew and used to advantage in his fiction ("Wolfe"). |
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| ISSN: | 0276-5683 2169-1452 |