O Pioneers By Cather Summary

Cather when writing "O Pioneers!”, reflects parts of her life and her views of herself and the world into the story. She lived in a time period when everyone automatically thought women could not accomplish the work of a man. In the story Cather shows the troubles she may have went though as a young girl and grew stronger than her peers because of her of her naturalistic and realistic views while everyone else 's views seem romantic. Romantic views like the men will do all the work because a woman could not possibly have the capabilities of doing so. While she writes as a naturalist and realist majority of the time, she also uses a romantic view. The way Cather portrays her views of life into the story creates a much better story rather than

Realistic events happen based on real life events and people can avoid them from occurring. While reading "O Pioneers!", one can learn that Emil loves Marie even though she has a husband. To avoid any trouble with the naturalistic ways Emil will leave and travel to Mexico just to keep his emotions from affecting her and her relationship with Frank. It sounds like a romantic gesture but in reality he will only miss Marie more and come back to try to associate with her after the occurrence. After Emil’s death, Carl and Alexandra talk about how the event of their death had occurred, and if it could have had a different outcome. If they had noticed Carl says, “That was why Emil went to Mexico, of course. And he was going away again, you tell me, though he had only been home three weeks. You remember that Sunday when I went with Emil up to the French Church fair? I thought that day there was some kind of feeling, something unusual, between them. I meant to talk to you about it.” Emil could not cease himself from loving Marie and he came back creating the reality that no one can change. Carl realizes that nothing can change with the event because it has already taken place and suddenly explains to Alexandra that she would have never stopped him from loving her to prevent their death of Emil, Carl explained, "My dear, it was something one felt in the air, as you feel the spring coming, or a storm in

Naturalistic means it will happen and nothing will stop it because naturalistic events happen 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 the father of Alexandra, John Bergeson passed away. Though the normal romantic person would have set their mind on knowing John Bergeson had put the land, house, farm, etc. in his will for one of his three sons. Against all odds of the time, John leaves it all to Alexandra, his one daughter out of four living children. He says, “Alexandra, her father often said to himself, was like her grandfather; which was his way of saying that she was intelligent” 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