The Fear That Walks by Noonday
- The Fear That Walks by Noonday
The Fear That Walks By Noonday is a short story by Willa Cather. It was first published in Sombrero in 1894 [Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction, University of Nebraska Press; Rev Ed edition, 1 Nov 1970, page 540] .
Plot summary
A team of football players have a talk before a game against the 'Injuns'. One player, Fred, passes out. Later, Reggie yells out McKinkey's political victory.
Characters
*Frederick Hurton
*Regiland Harton
*Morrison
*Chum-Chum, a girl.
*The coach
*'Policemen
Allusions to actual history
*William McKinley's re-electon as Governor of Ohio in 1893 is mentioned.
Literary significance and criticism
*The theme of a football game was suggested to Cather by Dorothy Canfield Fisher [James Leslie Woodress, "Willa Cather - A Literary Life", Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989, page 83] .
*It has been described as 'a highly conventional ghost story' [Susan J. Rosowski, "Voyage Perilous: Willa Cather's Romanticism", Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986] .
References
External links
* [http://libtextcenter.unl.edu/cather/writings/shortfiction/fear.html Full text]
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