From egocentrism to complete resignation. The effects of ageing in Willa Cather’s short story Old Mrs. Harris

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Wuppertal, language: English, abstract: Willa Cather is one of the most important novelists of the first half of the twentieth century. She was an accomplished storyteller who managed to capture the voice of a country and its people (Champion). Today, her novels and short stories number among those of the most celebrated American writers of the first half of the 20th century, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.