“O Pioneers!” Life Philosophies In the book “O PIONEERS!” the author Willa Cather showed many different philosophies of life which consist of romanticism, naturalism, and realism. She uses each element to portray or set the intensity, mood, and emotional effect of the story. This becomes useful because it can tell you how the scene is shown in the sense of how the characters are thinking and feeling. As stated earlier she uses realism, naturalism, and romanticism here I’ll show some examples. Cather uses naturalism through most of the story portraying how brutal and unforgiving the farming business can become. This states out when she talks about John Bergson farm. Such as “ One winter his cattle had perished in a blizzard. The next summer