So Big (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Edna Ferber
- First Published: 1924
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Values, Child rearing or parenting, United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Gambling, Twentieth century, Beauty, Farms, farmers, or farming, Fathers, Ambition, Lifestyles, Life, philosophy of, Career women
- Locales: Illinois
Places Discussed
High Prairie. Dutch farming community southwest of Chicago where Ferber’s protagonist, Selina Peake, goes to teach in a primitive one-room schoolhouse after her gambler father is shot to death. There she lives with a farming family named Pool and experiences an environment as different from that of her life with her peripatetic father as the fine finishing school she attended in Chicago is different from the tiny schoolhouse in which she teaches. Selina’s school opens its sessions in November after the fall harvest. During the cold winters, students huddle...
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