Summary Of The Mountains By Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Wolfe’s play The Mountains reads as though it could be a nationwide hit. In letters written by Thomas to his professor George Pierce Baker “If the audience is depressed over my play, I am depressed over my audience (Clark 39).” I feel the same sentiment with Thomas Wolfe when he talks so fondly of his play. When reading The Mountains, I had the feeling I was experiencing something of importance. Thomas Wolfe in the early age of his college career was able to write a play that portrayed strong emotion of several characters. The emotion of these characters was clearly felt to me when I read the monologue of Richard explaining how he felt about his family and morals. At the end of The Mountains, Richard the main character, goes on a full
The fact I am missing the live performance hinders my judgement such that I am able not to review it completely. As a literary piece I can confidently call The Mountains a solid piece of work worth of commendation. Contrastingly, the review by McElderry of The Southern Literary Journal calls Thomas Wolfe’s The Mountains unpolished and an ultimate failure (McElderry 152). McElderry calls on Thomas Wolfe’s professor and influence Professor Koch as the push for Thomas Wolfe’s inspiration in being a playwright. Contradictory of McElderry’s review he explains that The Mountains play received “respectful attention” from people who frequented the plays of the theater guild at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Again, McElderry states that the work Thomas Wolfe’s The Mountains is something of a polished step compared to his later works of Mannerhouse or Welcome to Out City. McElderry swings back and forth from a view of liking The Mountains to not liking it at all. Near the end of McElderry’s review of The Mountains he explains about how the University of North Carolina and Harvard University has a minor oversight that caused the play itself to be a