SOURCE: "The Realism of the Mississippi Valley," in The Prairie and the Making of Middle America: Four Centuries of Description, The Torch Press, 1926, pp. 328-44.
In the excerpt below, Dondore discusses the grim portrayals of rural life in Garland's short stories, recognizing them as truthful depictions drawn from the author's own experiences.
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