Cather’s sentimental and slightly debatable novel tells the tale of the Bergsons, a relations of Swedish pioneers that settles for all times within the American prairie. whereas Alexandra, the relations matriarch, is ready to flip the relatives farm right into a monetary good fortune, her brother Emil needs to grapple with the tragedy of solace and forbidden love. a singular strangely prior to its time, this proto-feminist paintings touches upon a variety of issues, together with love, marriage, temptation, and isolation.
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Alexandra felt that there has been anything unusual within the means he chilled off, as though whatever got here up in him that extinguished his strength of feeling or considering. “Yes, Frank,” she acknowledged kindly. “I comprehend you by no means intended to harm Marie. ” Frank smiled at her queerly. His eyes crammed slowly with tears. “You understand, I such a lot forgit dat woman’s identify. She ain’t obtained no identify for me not more. I by no means hate my spouse, yet dat lady what make me do dat—Honest to God, yet I hate her! I no guy to struggle. I don’ are looking to kill no boy and no lady. I no longer care what percentage males she take lower than dat tree. I no deal with not‘ing yet dat high quality boy I kill, Alexandra Bergson. i suppose i'm going loopy yes ’nough. ” Alexandra remembered the little yellow cane she had present in Frank’s clothes-closet. She considered how he had come to this kingdom a homosexual younger fellow, so beautiful that the prettiest Bohemian lady in Omaha had run away with him. It appeared unreasonable that existence must have landed him in the sort of position as this. She blamed Marie bitterly. And why, together with her chuffed, affectionate nature, may still she have introduced destruction and sorrow to all who had enjoyed her, even to terrible outdated Joe Tovesky, the uncle who used to hold her approximately so proudly while she used to be a bit woman? That used to be the strangest factor of all. was once there, then, anything unsuitable in being warm-hearted and impulsive like that? Alexandra hated to imagine so. yet there has been Emil, within the Norwegian graveyard at domestic, and the following used to be Frank Shabata. Alexandra rose and took him via the hand. “Frank Shabata, i'm by no means going to forestall making an attempt until eventually i am getting you pardoned. I’ll by no means provide the Governor any peace. i do know i will be able to get you out of this position. ” Frank checked out her distrustfully, yet he amassed self assurance from her face. “Alexandra,” he stated earnestly, “if I git out-a right here, I no longer difficulty dis kingdom not more. i'm going again the place I come from; see my mom. ” Alexandra attempted to withdraw her hand, yet Frank hung on to it nervously. He placed out his finger and absently touched a button on her black jacket. “Alexandra,” he stated in a low tone, having a look gradually on the button, “you ain’ t’ink i take advantage of dat lady lousy undesirable sooner than —” “No, Frank. We won’t speak about that,” Alexandra stated, urgent his hand. “I can’t support Emil now, so I’m going to do what i will for you. you recognize I don’t depart from domestic usually, and that i got here up right here on goal to inform you this. ” The warden on the glass door regarded inquiringly. Alexandra nodded, and he got here in and touched the white button on his table. The shield seemed, and with a sinking center Alexandra observed Frank led away down the hall. After a couple of phrases with Mr. Schwartz, she left the legal and made her method to the street-car. She had refused with horror the warden’s cordial invitation to “go during the establishment. ” because the motor vehicle lurched over its asymmetric roadbed, again towards Lincoln, Alexandra considered how she and Frank have been wrecked by means of a similar hurricane and of the way, even supposing she may perhaps pop out into the daylight, she had now not even more left in her lifestyles than he. She remembered a few traces from a poem she had cherished in her schooldays: and sighed.