![]() ![]() Stoner finishes his degree and is offered a job teaching at the University he readily accepts. They urge that he come along, but he decides against it after consulting with Sloane, who argues that armed conflict is antithetical to the creative, civilizing work of the intellectual. ![]() Two of his friends, David Masters and Gordon Finch, leave the university to enlist and fight in World War I. Before his graduation, one of his teachers, Archer Sloane, sensing his love for literature, suggests that Stoner continue his studies and obtain his doctoral degree and Stoner accepts. When he is twenty he goes to the University of Missouri to study agriculture but winds up changing majors when he falls in love with English. In his early life, Stoner knew only the farm and had scarcely traveled more than several miles away from it. He becomes a professor and teaches for decades through numerous personal and political struggles until his death. He attends University and falls in love with English literature. William Stoner is born into a farming family in rural Missouri in the late 1800s.
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