Describing the Business of Farming in O Pioneers! by Willa Silbert Cath

Describing the Business of Farming in O Pioneers by Willa Silbert CatherWilla Sibert Cather was born in Virginia, December 7, 1873. At the age of nine, Cathers family go to Nebraska. Willa fell in love with the country, with the waste prairies of the Nebraska. In her life, Willa worked for different journals and magazines and received m each honorary degrees, even the Pulitzer Prize. Her literary life was extremely influenced by her puerility in the wild country. In her life story, I actually didnt find any trace of doing a business relative to farming, or running a farm on her own. Therefore she doesnt seem to direct practical experience with business of farming. Maybe thats why she describes it in a general way only, without any particulars.The Cathers novel O Pioneers gives us a realistic picture of peoples life at the end of the nineteenth century. The new incomers, who settled the unfriendly countries of American continent, had very(prenominal) hard times. It was necessary fo r them to do whatever they were able to, to earn some money or to gain something to eat. As we can see in Cathers novel, some(prenominal) people were farming. But some of them were not farmers in their country of origin, they vindicatory started farming in the new home. Even though they knew nothing approximately it. Willa Cather describes a history of such people, a Norwegian immigrant family, the Bergsons. The beginnings in the new world were very tough for the Bergson family. And the situation didnt seem to get better. They have met several misfortunes that have held their farming business back. One winter his cattle had perished in a blizzard. The next summer one of his plow horses broke its leg in a prairie-dog hole and had to be shot. Another summer he broken his hogs from cholera, and a valuable stallion died from a rattlesnake bite. Time and again his crops had failed. He had lost two children, boys, that came between Lou and Emil, and there had been the cost of sickness and deathThis is Cathers idea of what John Bergson had to fight against. Its clear, that the whole family felt discouraged and helpless when there was no achievement coming. They saw many people around them selling their land and giving the farming up. They were going to find their fortune somewhere else. After John Bergson died, his sons in addition wanted to give up and change the hard work on the infertile land for some... ...ittle joke. It pretended to be poor because nobody knew how to work it veracious and then, all at once, it worked itself. It woke up out of its sleep and stretched itself, and it was so big, so rich, that we suddenly found we were rich, just from sitting still.I dont know much about farming at the end of the nineteenth century, but I heard something in the school and they have told nothing about becoming rich just from sitting still. This is the romantic point of view of the problem, and thats the Willa Cathers point of view.Actually, there has been som e business behind the success. The fact, that Alexandra was buying more and more low-price land. She was very clever. She knew exactly what to do, to buy the farm rich and struggle no more. She could count the expenses and the profits several years ahead. But she did all this only because some spirit told her to, only because she felt something omnipotent coming out of the land. Did Willa Cather think this is the way that bussiness works? It seems to be her romantic illusion. I dont think Alexandra had sufficient reasons to mortgage a farm and start a big business from nothing with all risks. But she made a bet and won. Lucky girl.