O Pioneers! Chapter Summary & Analysis - Part 2 Chapter 7 Summary

Part 2 Chapter 7 Summary

Marie's beauty and charm made her the apple of her father's eye. Albert Tovesky was an intelligent Bohemian who was a leader of his people in Omaha. Marie graduated from Omaha High School when she was only sixteen. That year Frank Shabata came to town from the Old Country and he was very sexy. All the Bohemian girls had a crush on him, but Frank chose the prettiest one: Marie.

Albert Tovesky could not stand Frank because he abandoned his mother. When Marie refused to stop seeing him, he sent her to convent school in St. Louis. There she pined away for Frank and made a shrine of his photographs. After her eighteenth birthday, she met Frank at Union Station in St. Louis and married him. Frank became a hard working farmer who felt sorry for himself.

Part 2 Chapter 7 Analysis

This brief three-page backstory explains why the prettiest and most charming girl Marie...
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