@article{oai:dwcla.repo.nii.ac.jp:00001848,
 author = {志水, 智子 and SHIMIZU, Satoko},
 journal = {Asphodel},
 month = {Jul},
 note = {application/pdf, AN00000289-20190727-35, In Willa Cather’s Lucy Gayheart (1935), the heroine, Lucy, is described as a momentary passionate musician who lacks vitality and a concrete future vision. She is far from a pioneer woman like Alexandra in Cather’s O Pioneers! (1913) and ambitious Thea in The Songs of the Lark (1915). In this essay, I’d like to investigate why Cather described such a fragile and short-lived character as Lucy in her mature years as a writer. Lucy embodies Cather’s view of youth, beauty and passion. At the same time, we can see Cather’s trust in American pragmatic moral sense through the life of Lucy.
Lucy never tries to make good use of her gift for music to grab material success, while Gordon, her childhood friend and later admirer, diligently gets money and social success though he doesn’t have any special talent. Lucy loves Sebastian without any practical future vision of marrying him. She is indifferent to her future and real life, so that she rejects Gordon’s proposal. While Gordon is described as a hard banker who embodies American capitalism, he also envies Lucy’s passion and talent. He must abandon temporal passion and fragile young days to make a concrete social success and gets older and older unlike short-lived Lucy. By describing the difference between Lucy and Gordon, Cather highlights the beauty of lost youth as well as a practical way of life., 論文},
 pages = {35--52},
 title = {Cather と失われた青春の記憶： Lucy Gayheart 考察},
 volume = {54},
 year = {2019},
 yomi = {シミズ, サトコ}
}