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O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
Willa Cather has a way of drawing you into a longing that you didn’t realize was sleeping in you. A longing for the wilderness of the prairie or the past juxtaposed to a longing for luxury and city. Longing for a love that can never be realized. Longing for a youth that can never be reclaimed. Longing for home, for the old country. Longing, longing, longing...
Set on the Nebraska plains, O Pioneers! follows the early settlers that were made up of Swedes, bohemians, French, Norwegians, and Germans. Their struggle to survive, and the quick ones who has the imagination to establish their enterprise. She is explores the complexity of these relationships- the bonds that form from struggle to wealth, and also the resentments. You feel keenly the trapped feeling of the characters, but also their pride and tiredness. She helps you feel and resonate with the exquisiteness of living.
A beautiful ode to people who working incredibly hard, make uncertain choices, and must live with themselves and the consequences.
“As she lay alone in the dark, it occurred to her for the first time that perhaps she was actually tired of life. All the physical operations of life seemed difficult and painful.”
Set on the Nebraska plains, O Pioneers! follows the early settlers that were made up of Swedes, bohemians, French, Norwegians, and Germans. Their struggle to survive, and the quick ones who has the imagination to establish their enterprise. She is explores the complexity of these relationships- the bonds that form from struggle to wealth, and also the resentments. You feel keenly the trapped feeling of the characters, but also their pride and tiredness. She helps you feel and resonate with the exquisiteness of living.
A beautiful ode to people who working incredibly hard, make uncertain choices, and must live with themselves and the consequences.
“As she lay alone in the dark, it occurred to her for the first time that perhaps she was actually tired of life. All the physical operations of life seemed difficult and painful.”