O Pioneers By Willa Cather Analysis

The majority of "O Pioneers!" reflects on the life of the writer, Willa Cather. Cather at the time thrived in a man's world. Cather lived in a time when everyone thought men should do all the work and the women should stay at home, a romantic view. Due to her naturalistic mindset, she believed that women can thrive and achieve anything a man could causing her to lead and set the goal of women everywhere in the time period. "O Pioneers!" was written by a naturalistic woman, so anyone would assume the story to be seem mostly naturalistic, which the story appears. Personally, the story written the way it has been, in a naturalistic world, makes for a much better story. A realistic sense means something that can change if someone tried, but you have to predict what will happen first. These types of writings happened to appear in Cather's writing on multiple occasions. For example, when Emil decided to lay next to Marie under the tree. Emil had known that Marie had married Frank, so to prevent himself from getting too attached to her, Emil goes to Mexico
Naturalistic means an event will happen and nothing will stop it because naturalistic events occur due to science. Naturalistic events take place all the time. For example, death. No one can stop death and only with certain resources can someone withhold death. One of the first big events in the story happened to John Bergeson, who passed away. Most would have expected John to give all of his land to his sons, which he put majority of his life into. He often said to himself that Alexandra was like her grandfather, which was his way of saying that she was intelligent." which leads to him giving everything he worked for to Alexandra. He also states when talking to all of his children, "I want you to keep the land together and to be guided by your sister. I have talked to her since I have been sick, and she knows all my