In Floyd Dells criticism of Masters, he stated,"œIf we share, as most of us do, the cheerful American romanticism in which the disturbing fact of death cannot be said to have any place, it is something of a triumph for the author's art to have made us feel, even if only for a little while, that it is toward death that life leads, and that this is the final secret of life...

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