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The Foolishness of Dreams in Harriette Arnow's Hunter's Horn and The Dollmaker

The Foolishness of Dreams in Harriette Arnow's Hunter's Horn and The Dollmaker The Foolishness of Dreams in Harriette Arnow's *^> Hunter's Horn and The Dollmaker ¿¿£~ ~-*r by RONALD BUTLER Harriette Simpson Arnow is one of the major writers today telling the story of people crossing one of the last frontiers in America, that from the hill country culture to urbanization. In Hunter's Horn1 and The Dollmaker,2 she treats the classic theme of the American dream in terms of this contemporary confrontation of the hill culture with urban living, which Arnow sees as being forced by what she calls "the Great Migration," or "the going out during and after World War II."3 Since the need of earning cash was not being met in the hiircommunities of Eastern Kentucky, the men were forced to go to more populous regions seeking jobs, where they worked till they had earned enough cash to pay for those items their families needed and they could not make themselves, and then returned home. But with the coming of the war, "the average man did not stay a few months and come home again. Instead, the wife and children followed," and "the Great Migration twisted, and possibly wrecked" Harriette Arnow's dream of a return of prosperity and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

The Foolishness of Dreams in Harriette Arnow's Hunter's Horn and The Dollmaker

Butler, Ronald.
Appalachian Review , Volume 12 (3) – Jan 8, 1984
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The Foolishness of Dreams in Harriette Arnow's *^> Hunter's Horn and The Dollmaker ¿¿£~ ~-*r by RONALD BUTLER Harriette Simpson Arnow is one of the major writers today telling the story of people crossing one of the last frontiers in America, that from the hill country culture to urbanization. In Hunter's Horn1 and The Dollmaker,2 she treats the classic theme of the American dream in terms of this contemporary confrontation of the hill culture with urban living, which Arnow sees as being forced by what she calls "the Great Migration," or "the going out during and after World War II."3 Since the need of earning cash was not being met in the hiircommunities of Eastern Kentucky, the men were forced to go to more populous regions seeking jobs, where they worked till they had earned enough cash to pay for those items their families needed and they could not make themselves, and then returned home. But with the coming of the war, "the average man did not stay a few months and come home again. Instead, the wife and children followed," and "the Great Migration twisted, and possibly wrecked" Harriette Arnow's dream of a return of prosperity and

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Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 1984

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