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The Western Formula
Title: The Western Formula
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1343 | Pages: 5.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Western Formula
A seemingly traditional approach towards the Western frontier is the reason for John Cawelti’s assessment from The Six-Gun Mystique. His description of the Western formula being “far easier to define than that of the detective story” may clearly be a paradigm for many authors, but not particularly for Stephen Crane. The standards Cawelti has set forth for a successful Western is quite minimal by thought, but at the same time relevant. Crane signifies a …showed first 75 words of 1343 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1343 total…of righteous ecstasy, the moment when you know you have the moral advantage of your adversary, the moment of murderousness. It’s a moment when there’s still time top stop. There’s still time to reflect, there’s still time to recall what happened in High Noon, there’s still time to say: “I don’t care who’s right or who’s wrong. There has to be some better way to live” (Tompkins 239).
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