Today's Discussion Leader: Cassandra
I don't think there will be too many stories that you will read that will "confuse" you more than any of Stein's work! So if you want to just get to know who she is a writer, click here for a link to her Wikipedia entry.
Click here for a great web site dedicated to analyzing and understanding Stein's work!
So how did folks, even in her own time, look at her work? Her abstract style was not received well by the general public. Many patrons of the arts called her a "literary cubist"...in her ability of projecting reality beyond reality, and compared her to the "cubist" painters of that time. After WWI everything seemed changed and unsettled in Paris (where she and many other Americans were living). These years would be dubbed "The Lost Generation" ...the world disillusioned by war, it was a time of Hemingway, Fitzgerald and others writers to express this sense of lost direction and idealism. Hemingway said on meeting Gertrude..."It was a vital day for me when I stumbled upon you."
"As long as the outside does not put a value on you it remains outside but when it does put a value on you then it gets inside or rather if the outside puts a value on you then all your inside gets to be outside."
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