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Part 1 begins with a look into the history of the Gant family and their origins in the migration of patriarch Gilbert Gaunt to America from England. William Oliver Gant , Gilbert’s son, grows and journeys away from the family home in the Pennsylvanian Dutch countryside and, allured by a stone angel created to adorn a graveside, finds a ...
Part 1, Chapter 2 Summary. Eliza and Oliver marry and move into a home that Oliver built himself and takes great pride in. In contrast, Eliza is eager to invest in new properties in pursuit of financial stability and prosperity. She convinces Oliver, whom everyone calls Gant, including his wife, to partner in business with her brother Will.
220422413. Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life is a 1929 novel by Thomas Wolfe. It is Wolfe's first novel, and is considered a highly autobiographical American coming-of-age story. [1] The character of Eugene Gant is generally believed to be a depiction of Wolfe himself. The novel briefly recounts Eugene's father's early life, but ...
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Complete summary of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Look Homeward, Angel. ... 1984 Part 1 Chapter 6 and 7 Quiz ©2024 eNotes.com, Inc ...
Part 1, Chapter 1 Summary. Look Homeward, Angel begins with a contemplation on the universality of human life. Wolfe reflects on the connections between human lives separated by distance and time when he states, “every moment is a window on all time” (5). Wolfe begins his tale of the Gant family’s arrival in America with the simple line ...
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Part 1. Look Homeward, Angel begins with the journey of Englishman Gilbert Gaunt to Pennsylvania; there he marries a Dutch woman. One of his sons, Oliver Gant (the name was changed upon Gilbert's immigration), becomes a stonecutter and travels through the South until settling with his first wife, Cynthia. After her death, Gant thinks he is ...
A thinly disguised autobiography and a portrait of the early twentieth-century American South, Look Homeward, Angel is the most famous book of an author who used to be regarded as an equal of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner. Published in New York in 1929, Thomas Wolfe's novel was considered striking and important—a ...
