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Zane Grey의 "The Day of the Beast"는 1922년에 출판된 소설로, 그의 전형적인 서부 소설과는 다른 양상을 보입니다. 이 작품은 제1차 세계대전 직후의 미국 사회를 배경으로 하며, 전쟁에서 돌아온 참전 용사들의 삶과 그들이 직면한 사회적, 심리적 문제를 다룹니다.

소설의 주인공인 Daren Lane은 전쟁에서 돌아온 후 고향에서 심각한 변화와 도덕적 타락을 목격합니다. 그는 물질주의, 향락주의, 그리고 전통적 가치의 붕괴로 특징지어지는 전후 사회와 충돌합니다. Grey는 이를 통해 전쟁이 미국 사회에 미친 깊은 영향과 '잃어버린 세대'의 고뇌를 탐구합니다.

작품은 주인공의 개인적 투쟁과 함께 사회 비판적인 메시지를 담고 있습니다. 전통적 가치관의 회복과 도덕성의 중요성을 강조하며, 동시에 전쟁의 참혹함과 그 여파에 대한 작가의 비판적 시각을 드러냅니다.

"The Day of the Beast"는 Zane Grey의 작품 중에서도 특히 진지하고 어두운 톤을 가진 작품으로, 그의 문학적 스펙트럼의 넓이를 보여줍니다. 이 소설은 단순한 오락거리를 넘어 당대의 중요한 사회적 이슈를 다루고 있어, Grey의 작가로서의 깊이와 사회적 통찰력을 잘 보여주는 작품으로 평가받습니다.


Zane Grey's "The Day of the Beast" is a novel published in 1922, and it is different from his typical Western novels. It is set in American society immediately after World War I, and deals with the lives of veterans returning from the war and the social and psychological problems they face.

The protagonist, Daren Lane, witnesses serious changes and moral decay in his hometown after returning from the war. He clashes with the postwar society characterized by materialism, hedonism, and the collapse of traditional values. Through this, Grey explores the profound impact of the war on American society and the agony of the 'lost generation'.

The work contains a socially critical message along with the protagonist's personal struggle. It emphasizes the restoration of traditional values and the importance of morality, while at the same time revealing the author's critical view of the horrors of war and its aftermath.

"The Day of the Beast" is one of Zane Grey's most serious and dark works, showing the breadth of his literary spectrum. The novel goes beyond mere entertainment and deals with important social issues of the time, making it a work that demonstrates Grey's depth and social insight as a writer.

Summary
His native land! Home!
The shipglided slowly up the Narrows; and from its deck Daren Lane saw the noble black outline of the Statue of Liberty limned against the clear gold of sunset. A familiar old pang in his breast?longing and homesickness and agony, together with the physical burn of gassed lungs?seemed to swell into a profound overwhelming emotion.
"My own?my native land!" he whispered, striving to wipe the dimness from his eyes. Was it only two years or twenty since he had left his country to go to war? A sense of strangeness dawned upon him. His home-coming, so ceaselessly dreamed of by night and longed for by day, was not going to be what his hopes had created.

Contents
CHAPTER I. The shipglided slowly up the Narrows
CHAPTER II. His mother divined what he knew
CHAPTER III. Lane saw the casement of his window
CHAPTER IV. As Lane sped out Elm Street in a taxicab
CHAPTER V. The arbiters of social fate in Middleville
CHAPTER VI. Mrs. Maynard slowly went upstairs
CHAPTER VII. The April day had been warm and fresh
CHAPTER VIII. Lane's intentions and his spirit were too great
CHAPTER IX. At that moment she was laboring under
CHAPTER X. In the following week Rose learned
CHAPTER XI. One afternoon and evening of a warm
CHAPTER XII. He got back to his bed
CHAPTER XIII. Lane left his room and went into the shady woods
CHAPTER XIV. The time came when Daren had to make a painful choice
CHAPTER XV. To be a mystery is overpoweringly sweet to any girl
CHAPTER XVI. Early one August evening Lane went out to find
CHAPTER XVII. The reaction from that night landed Lane in the hospital
CHAPTER XVIII. Seldom did Blair Maynard ever trust himself any more
CHAPTER XIX. Middleville was noted for its severe winters
CHAPTER XX. One bitter February day he took refuge
CHAPTER XXI. The room he lay in was strange to him
CHAPTER XXII. Mel shaded her eyes from the glare of the bright
CHAPTER XXIII. Summer waned
CHAPTER XXIV. The once-contented Colonel was being consumed
CHAPTER XXV. Lane was returning from a restless wandering