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Eugene Goes to Sydney (Eugene Gant of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel, And O Lost) (Critical Essay)

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  • Title: Eugene Goes to Sydney (Eugene Gant of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel, And O Lost) (Critical Essay)
  • Author : Thomas Wolfe Review
  • Release Date : January 01, 2007
  • Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 197 KB

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Whenever Eugene Gant goes to Sydney in Look Homeward, Angel (1929) and O Lost (2000), he retraces trips to Raleigh that the author Thomas Wolfe had made when he was a student at Chapel Hill between 1916 and 1920. Wolfe, so to speak, guides or mentors his leading character on these adventures. In both versions, Eugene, like Tom, goes to North Carolina's capital to visit his sister and brother-in-law during his freshman year in college. In O Lost, Wolfe's character, as a sophomore, follows his creator/mentor in socializing with the family of an older college roommate whose father is the Yankee rector of the Episcopal preparatory school for girls in Sydney. It turns out that Eugene's heartthrob, Laura James, had studied on this campus (514-17). Wolfe changed the name of St. Mary's School to St. Martha's, just as Sydney was his fictional name for Raleigh. Elsewhere, in part 3 of O Lost, appears the most personal account of Eugene's actual journeys into Sydney and his typical routine while there. Young Wolfe himself had made similar trips, and, as with Eugene, the future author's Raleigh guide was not a family member or a college roommate. Rather, like sister Mabel and brother-in-law Ralph, roommate George Lay, and, for that matter, Clara Paul--the original of Laura James--this guide was older than Wolfe. Like Connecticut-born Lay, Wolfe's mentor in Raleigh was also a native of the North, New Jersey to be exact. The following passage from O Lost, chapter 29, evokes Eugene's experience in Sydney:


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