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Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her elderly husband, to the small town of Sweet Water where they live, to the prairie land itself, and to the young narrator of her story, Neil Herbert. All are bewitched by her brilliance and grace, and all are ultimately betrayed. For Marian longs for "life on any terms", and in fulfilling herself, she loses all she loved and all who loved her. This, Willa Cather's most perfect novel, is not only a portrait of a troubling beauty, but also a haunting evocation of a noble age slipping irrevocably into the past.
A portrait of a lady who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations embody the decline of the American frontier.
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David Lainson
reviewed A Lost Lady on December 22, 2013
A Lost Lady
Set in the fictional prairie town of Sweet Water, Nebraska. A Lost Lady is the story of Mrs. Marian Forrester and young Neil Herbert who adores her. The way she takes care of her husband, the stately manner she comports herself, is perfection in the eyes of Neil. But Marian is not perfect, and she begins her downfall in Neil's eyes when he discovers she is having an affair while her husband is away. Later in the story, after her husband has died, Marian has a relationship with the despised Ivy Peters, and her decline is complete for Neil.
Willa Cather always develops memorable characters in her novels, and Marian Forrester is no exception. Marian was Fitzgerald's inspiration for Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. I've read most of Cather's novels and I put A Lost Lady right up there with My Ãntonia and One of Ours. She truly was a national treasure, one of the great American writers of the 20th century.
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