Four Generations
Title
Four Generations
Description
The taking of a family photograph provides Suckow with the occasion for a brilliant portrait of four generations of an Iowa family: the still “foreign-like” German immigrant farmer grandfather who wishes he could speak more with his eldest son who has left the farm to be a small town banker 100 miles away. The son who wonders if it was a mistake to send his
fastidious only child East to college where she remained to marry a New Englander and have a beautiful little daughter, now back for a visit to Iowa and and the ancestral farm. Yet in this interior look at change, alienation, and loss, a surprising cross-generation connection occurs.
fastidious only child East to college where she remained to marry a New Englander and have a beautiful little daughter, now back for a visit to Iowa and and the ancestral farm. Yet in this interior look at change, alienation, and loss, a surprising cross-generation connection occurs.
Creator
Suckow, Ruth
Source
The American Mercury, I (January 1924), pp. 15-21.
Iowa Interiors (1926)
Publisher
State Library of Iowa
Date
1924
Rights
Copyright held by Barbara Camamo, niece and Literary Executor of the Suckow estate. Downloading for nonprofit, educational use only.