Neighbor Rosicky | Essays and Criticism

  • Life and Death

    Burns is a writing specialist at Emmanuel College, and her areas of special studies include film studies and nineteenth-century British literature as well as gay and lesbian studies. In the following essay, she discusses the balances between life and death in Cather’s ‘‘Neighbour Rosicky.’’

  • Cather’s Complex Tale of a Simple Man, ‘Neighbour Rosicky'

    In the following excerpt, originally presented at the Brigham Young University’s Willa Cather Symposium in September 1988, Skaggs offers an interpretation of Cather’s ‘‘Neighbour Rosicky’’ and praises Cather’s ‘‘courage to affirm a new route to . . . the American dream of success.’’

  • Observation and Narration in Willa Cather’s Obscure Destinies

    Leddy is an assistant professor of English at Eastern Illinois University. In the following excerpt, he examines the disparity of perspectives between the observer and the narrator in Cather’s ‘‘Neighbour Rosicky.’’

  • Harmony in "Neighbour Rosicky"

    In the following excerpt, Arnold gives an overview of Cather’s ‘‘Neighbour Rosicky’’ and examines Cather’s use of integrating devices to create a sense of balance, wholeness, and unity in the story.

  • The Agrarian Mode in Cather’s ‘Neighbour Rosicky

    In the following excerpt, Piacentino offers an interpretation of Cather’s ‘‘Neighbour Rosicky,’’ particularly with regard to the themes of Agrarianism. Piacentino also examines Cather’s use of imagistic descriptions.