During a wedding, the protagonist's mother recites to her guests the line, "a son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter's a daughter for the rest of her life."
During a wedding, the protagonist's mother recites to her guests the line, "a son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter's a daughter for the rest of her life." While reading a book of essays, the protagonist thinks that "democracy must be real, because it is so very earnest," but in an interview with Mr. Torrington pretends to prefer Barrie to Shaw. He demands tuition money from his Eliza following the sale of Dixieland, where he met Laura James. In the end, he encounters the ghost of his brother Ben, which tells him, "You are your world." Taking its title from Milton's Lycidas, and continued by its author's Of Time and the River, FTP, identify this novel about the coming of age of Eugene Gant, written by Thomas Wolfe.
During a wedding, the protagonist's mother recites to her guests the line, "a son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter's a daughter for the rest of her life."
{Look Homeward, Angel}