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Cather's O Pioneers!(Willa Cather)(Character overview)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20060322
Author:Noe, Mark D.

Just a few pages into the first chapter of O Pioneers! Willa Cather introduces Marie Tovesky, a Bohemian girl visiting the farming village of Hanover from her home in Omaha. The little girl, about six years old, is in her uncle's general store, surrounded by a group of local men. Mostly hard-scrabble farmers enjoying much-deserved relaxation after a difficult year of breaking the Nebraska prairie, they tease Marie with offers of candy and gifts as she decides which of them she will name as her sweetheart. When she chooses her Uncle Joe, he rewards her with a big hug. The other men ...

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