One of us

In a novel that combines &quote;psychological realism&quote; and &quote;social history&quote;, the American writer Willa Cather presents to us in &quote;One of Us&quote; the story of &quote;Claude Wheeler&quote;, a rural young man who is experiencing a deep internal conflict in the early twentieth century in &quote;Nebraska.&quote; Claude, who belongs to a well-off family, feels &quote;empty and lost,&quote; and dreams of a life more exciting and meaningful than the &quote;monotonous life&quote; he lives on the &quote;family farm.&quote; We follow with &quote;Claude&quote; his journey in search of &quote;himself and his identity,&quote; from &quote;the religious college that does not satisfy his intellectual curiosity&quote; to &quote;the university that opens the doors of a new world for him,&quote; to &quote;World War I,&quote; which he sees as &quote;an opportunity to escape from the constraints of his narrow life.&quote; &quote;. In this novel, Cather explores the &quote;complex American psyche&quote; of that period, highlighting &quote;the tension between tradition and the desire for change,&quote; and between &quote;the past and the future.&quote;