Stoner was dumbfounded not only with embarrassment, but by the language of the English bard. The professor puts him on the spot asking him to explain a Shakespeare Sonnet. The first pivotal moment for Stoner is when he is sitting in an English class taught by his future mentor. He was almost too busy to worry too much about school He still had to go back to the family farm and help his father whenever he had spare time. He still had to work on a relative's farm to pay for his tuition and found the more work he did the less help he got from his relatives. He sent Stoner to the University of Missouri to find out what the future was going to be for agriculture. His father, in his own way, a visionary man could see that farming was on the cusp of great changes. It took all of them to keep up with the backbreaking work of a farm in the early 20th century. They were an undersized family for that time period, just his father and mother and himself. William Stoner grew up on a farm, a hardscrabble farm too small to provide more than just subsistence living. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart."
Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by "In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. "In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.more John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents his career is stymied his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family.
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family.
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