Perhaps, Stoner is the greatest American novel of which you’ve never heard of. Stoner has been categorized under the genre of the academic novel, or the campus novel. It wasn’t a Western. It was the story of an obscure university professor, a teacher whose life and career are steeped in disappointment and failure. The central character, William Stoner, begins as a farm boy in Missouri whose parents send him to the University of Missouri to major in agriculture. After reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 and influenced by his instructor, Archer Sloane, Stoner changes his major to literature and pursues a master of arts. The novel focuses on William Stoner and the central figures in his life. Those who become his enemies are used as tools against him who separate Stoner from his loves. One of the central themes in the novel is the manifestation of passion. Stoner’s passions manifest themselves into failures, as proven by the bleak end of his life. Stoner has two primary passions: knowledge and love.
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