> Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes (published in 1945) and The Watch That Ends the Night (published in 1959) are valiant if flawed attempts to depict Canada’s str

> Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes (published in 1945) and The Watch That Ends the Night (published in 1959) are valiant if flawed attempts to depict Canada’s struggle with its own identity in the middle years of the twentieth century. I’d say the characterization applied to other works also applies to MacLennan: > These novels omnivorously took in cross-sections of society... Even with the apparent confusion around Canadian identity depicted in literature, there are plenty of examples in the article where the cross-sections are well described. I enjoyed the article nonetheless.