The World in the AtticWright Morris's Nebraska Trilogy (1946 49) embodies his attempt to capture and come to terms with his past. According to David Madden, in his study Wright Morris, In The Inhabitants [a picture collection] the emphasis is on the artifacts inhabited and on the land; in The Home Place [narrative and pictures], on the inhabitants themselves; and in The World in the Attic, on what the land and the people signify to one man, Clyde Muncy, writer and self