![]() First, I examine the ways in which the female writer employs the railroad as a metaphor in her novels. In this essay, I explore how Cather understands her times and represents them in her prairie trilogy. ![]() This approach is effective in interpreting space per se, but it is also a major requisite to understand time from Cather’s literature, in that one’s experience is able to be thoroughly represented by the integration of time and space together. For that reason, scholars in general have investigated the relationships between the western environment and female protagonists. Cather, in particular, unravels the western frontier through the lives of women who are determined to reclaim native soils. Nebraska’s rough, but pristine beauty and pioneers’ vestiges on the plains attract readers to her novels. ![]() Readers comprehend natural vitality from Willa Cather’s prairie trilogy: O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Antonia (1918). ![]()
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