Ceremony in Lone Tree (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wright Morris
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Family literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, Sex or sexuality, Authors or writers, Friendship, Midwest, Heroes or heroism, Ghost towns
- Locales: Nebraska
Ceremony in Lone Tree is a continuation of the story begun in The Field of Vision. Once again, Morris uses many of the same characters he employed in the previous novel: Tom Scanlon, the man who lives his life in the past; McKee, the embodiment of middle-class conventionality; McKee's wife, Lois, a woman encased in her inhibitions; their grandson Gordon, the “infant Davy Crockett”; and Boyd, the “self-unmade man.” This time, however, the scene is different. Instead of using Mexico, Morris employs the ghost town of Lone Tree as a setting.
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