T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land is known to be the epic of the twentieth century in its spirit and subject matter. It offers a new idiom to the generation of readers, writers, and researchers in crystallizing how to capture in words the submerged psychic currents of a fractured sensibility. In America it surprisingly turns out to be the most popular poem among the novelist's ad short story writers, perpetually used as a model for the reflection of American experience ...