Here is a parody of the idea of “The Great American Anything” offered by the character Jerusalem Webster Stiles (who is the “devil” to John Shawnessy’s “Faust”) in Ross Lockridge, Jr.’s Raintree County. One should be aware that Lockridge’s novel was his considered entry into the “GAN” (Great American Novel) sweepstakes. The cynicism of Stiles (and as he is the least “pasteboard” of the characters) seems clearly where the author’s own mind found itself at the end of this long book.

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–Centennial Exhibit No. 1
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I am looking forward to getting a look at any dated revisions (if they survive) to see if this particular piece was inserted AFTER the novel had been accepted for publication. Lockridge was made to cut thousands and thousands of words from the novel and remove altogether one massive (500 pages?) dream narrative that he insisted was a “key” to the novel.

If the dreams that are included in the published version are any indication of this missing section, I’m glad it was cut. The dreams seem to me to simply spell out what the reader should be thinking about the “psychology” behind character’s actions and lives and the events that envelop them in the novel.