A review by agmaynard
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather

emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Melancholy, and filled at times with beautiful evocations of nature and a tie to the character's emotions.  Niel falls for the vital and vivacious Mrs Forrester as a young person and is gradually disappointed in her as she is human and not an Ideal.  Suffused with misogyny as well as an evocation of the idealized adventuring spirit of the colonizers of the middle and west.  In the last several pages:  "It was what he most held against Mrs Forrester; that she was not willing to immolate herself, like the widow of all these great men, and die with the pioneer period to which she belonged; that she preferred life on any terms."