SOURCE: Motley, Warren. “The Unfinished Self: Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and the Psychic Cost of a Woman's Success.” Women's Studies 12, no. 2 (1986): 149-65.
In the following essay, Motley provides a psychological study of the female protagonist of O Pioneers!, Alexandra Bergson, contending that the character's success exacts a heavy toll on her emotional life.
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