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Her other schemes having failed, but not yet giving up hope, Carol, inspired by a good time out with friends and the magical landscape, decides to start a drama club. Lewis crystallizes her resolve in luscious winter descriptions.

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Her other schemes having failed, but not yet giving up hope, Carol, inspired by a good time out with friends and the magical landscape, decides to start a drama club. Lewis crystallizes her resolve in luscious winter descriptions.

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Lewis gives two views of the same setting, contrasting two very differnet personalities.

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Lewis gives two views of the same setting, contrasting two very differnet personalities.

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First published in her 1921 collection “Nets to Catch the Wind,” Wylie’s sonnet cycle “Wild Peaches” dramatizes an elopement to an idyllic East: an event which has parallels in her own life. Notice her sumptuous nature descriptions and her final Puritanical twist in the fourth poem.

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First published in her 1921 collection “Nets to Catch the Wind,” Wylie’s sonnet cycle “Wild Peaches” dramatizes an elopement to an idyllic East: an event which has parallels in her own life. Notice her sumptuous nature descriptions and her final Puritanical twist in the fourth poem.

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Carol has had a few early successes in reforming Gopher Prairie, but come winter her rewards began to stall. Lewis captures her sense of failure and loneliness in this restless passage.

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Carol has had a few early successes in reforming Gopher Prairie, but come winter her rewards began to stall. Lewis captures her sense of failure and loneliness in this restless passage.

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Gopher Prairie, Minnesota: embodiment of small-town America. Newly-married Carol moves in, determined to campaign to change the town for the better, but she quickly runs into the petty-mindedness and lack of ambition. Through minute observation and setting-building, Lewis deftly dramatizes Carol’s struggle, both exterior and internal.

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Gopher Prairie, Minnesota: embodiment of small-town America. Newly-married Carol moves in, determined to campaign to change the town for the better, but she quickly runs into the petty-mindedness and lack of ambition. Through minute observation and setting-building, Lewis deftly dramatizes Carol’s struggle, both exterior and internal.

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