Marian Forrester is the emblematic blossom of the Old American West. She draws her quality from that strong establishment, carrying joy and excellence to her older spouse, to the community of Sweet Water where they live, to the prairie land itself, and the youthful storyteller of her story, Neil Herbert. All are beguiled by her splendor and effortlessness, and all are eventually sold out. For Marian yearns for "life on any terms," and in satisfying herself, she loses all she adored and all who cherished her. This, Willa Cather's absolute best novel, isn't just a representation of a disturbing stunner, yet additionally, an eerie inspiration of an honorable age slipping permanently into the past.