At once we see that Anderson is highlighting the debasement of the original dream as the new frontiersmen now lack a vital element in their being: a moral or spiritual strength. Anderson also compares him to the original settlers by using the temporal marker ‘in these later times’. This shift is further shown in the first paragraph when Jesse is described as ‘but half strong’.

It opens in medias res and the reader is helped to recognise the societal critique by careful choice of lexis and by interpolations in the voice of the narrator. In the boom times following the First World War, such ambition marks a complete shift from the original ‘pure’ Pioneer farmer, seeking spiritual peace before profit. Indeed Jesse is shown as harbouring the sins of Pride and Ambition for glory as Anderson tells us that the sees himself as an ‘extraordinary’ man and one whose life must become a ‘thing of importance’. His surname suggests wealth and luxury by recalling the car manufacturer of the same name. The passage is concerned with a description of ‘Jesse Bentley’, so named to recall the Old Testament prophet, father of King David and named as the originator of Jesus’ descendants, presumably to suggest this Jesse as the origin of the new type of frontiersman of the 20th Century, burning with ambition for what the sees as his ‘destiny – the ability to make his farm ‘produce as no farm in the state had ever produced’ which marks a significant shift from the idea of Manifest Destiny -the taming of the land to God’s Will. This is an area settled by immigrants, often from Northern Europe, became an industrial powerhouse in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries as the railways opened the heart of the continent to ever increasing business. The passage is written in 1922 and set in the heart of the Mid West: Ohio. More information on this collection of short stories can be found here.

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