The story “O! Pioneers” written by Willa Cather uses three types of writing views. She uses the Romantic, Realistic, and Naturalistic views to write the story. The story is about a girl named Alexandra and how she deals with loss, failure, and loneliness. Cather mostly uses the naturalistic view to explain the struggles that Alexandra goes through, but she also uses the romantic and realistic views to explain it.
Cather uses the Realistic view to show us Alexandra realization of what happened. Having a realistic view basically shows acceptance, and understanding the reality of what happened, or will end up happening. Towards the end of the story, Alexandra and Carl have a “little talk” about what has happened over the years. By the end of the …show more content…
Naturalistic basically means the character cannot control it. Like death and the weather. In the story Alexandra’s father dies, then her mother, and finally, in the end, Emil and Marie die. She can not do anything about it, she has no control over the weather, no control over aging, she cannot help what happens because of these things. The quote “Could he rise from beneath it, he would not know the country under which he had been asleep. The shaggy coat of the prairie, which they lifted to make him a bed, has vanished forever” shows how much the land has changed. Not to her fault but what had happened with the weather. In the story, Frank and Alexandra have a conversation about who should take the blame. Alexandra says “I hope you'll let me be friendly with you. I understand how you did it. I don't feel hard toward you. They were more to blame than you." She is saying that he shouldn’t blame himself, they brought it on themselves. They couldn’t save them if they didn’t realize it had happened. They couldn’t control it, which shows just how naturalistic Cather wanted to make the story. In conclusion, Cather uses three types of view in her story “O! Pioneers”, Realistic, Romantic, and Naturalistic. She uses them in such a way that makes it easy to understand the story. She uses them in different situations and based on characters. She uses all three to describe Alexandra’s struggles, like her loneliness, the loss she faced and even her
Cather uses the Realistic view to show us Alexandra realization of what happened. Having a realistic view basically shows acceptance, and understanding the reality of what happened, or will end up happening. Towards the end of the story, Alexandra and Carl have a “little talk” about what has happened over the years. By the end of the …show more content…
Naturalistic basically means the character cannot control it. Like death and the weather. In the story Alexandra’s father dies, then her mother, and finally, in the end, Emil and Marie die. She can not do anything about it, she has no control over the weather, no control over aging, she cannot help what happens because of these things. The quote “Could he rise from beneath it, he would not know the country under which he had been asleep. The shaggy coat of the prairie, which they lifted to make him a bed, has vanished forever” shows how much the land has changed. Not to her fault but what had happened with the weather. In the story, Frank and Alexandra have a conversation about who should take the blame. Alexandra says “I hope you'll let me be friendly with you. I understand how you did it. I don't feel hard toward you. They were more to blame than you." She is saying that he shouldn’t blame himself, they brought it on themselves. They couldn’t save them if they didn’t realize it had happened. They couldn’t control it, which shows just how naturalistic Cather wanted to make the story. In conclusion, Cather uses three types of view in her story “O! Pioneers”, Realistic, Romantic, and Naturalistic. She uses them in such a way that makes it easy to understand the story. She uses them in different situations and based on characters. She uses all three to describe Alexandra’s struggles, like her loneliness, the loss she faced and even her