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This 4 page report discusses the themes presented in the 1891 story "Up the Coulee" by Hamlin Garland (1860-1940). It’s the story of a successful man returning to his poverty-stricken and hardworking family who he has neglected for the past ten years. He experiences joy and despair, a recognition of his own great luck and his understanding that it has come at a terrible cost for his brother and mother. Bibliography lists only the primary source.
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and smelling the surroundings that one saw as a child. It is also the story of the land itself as the traveler crosses fields, streams, and the "dear broken line
of hills on which his baby eyes had looked thirty-five years ago." This is not the type of "you cant go home again" story of the past thirty or forty
years but the sharing of an experience of remembrance and reconnection with a place and its people. Returning Home Throughout the story, the reader understands that although Howard has
been away from "his West - He still took pride in being a Western man." From the perspective of a 21st century American reader, it seems particularly quaint
that Wisconsin was ever though of as "the West." It is also a story or reassurance that some aspects of ones life and memories remain the same. Howard was
vaguely fearful that the land would not be the same after having been away from it for ten years. Garland explains that Howard: "Accustomed to the White Mountains,
to the Allghenies, he had wondered if these hills would retain their old-time charm. They did." In addition, it is a story about change - the change
in a man, people he recognizes and knew his entire life did not recognize this man who Garland describes as a: ". . . goodly figure
of a man as he stood there beside his valise. Portly, erect, handsomely dressed, and with something unusually winning in his brown mustache and blue eyes." Even
William McTurg, the man who turns out to be his own Uncle, takes some time to recognize his nephew and even when he does there is little emotion
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