5/13/2023 0 Comments The Bohemian Girl by Willa Cather![]() ![]() However, he decides to stop at Red Oak, Iowa and return home to his mother, as he doesn't want to leave her alone in the house. He is supposed to take a ship in New York City and join his brother and Clara in Bergen - Nils has been corresponding with Joe. ![]() As she is on her way back home from her father's one night, the two lovers run away.Ī year after their departure, Eric is on a train. Sometime later, her father invites her and Nils along for wine and music.Later, at the Ericsons's barnraising, Nils follows Clara down in the cellar, then dances with her and says they should run away. Later, Clara meets Nils outside the saloon he tells her he came back to see her because he loves her. His mother drives him home and expresses her disapproval of Clara's father, for being a saloon-keeper. Nils visits Clara, who asks him if he has the second will his father did, bequeathing him some land. The next day the two brothers talk about Lou Sandberg's suicide - Nils dismisses the old man for his folly. He goes for a walk with his little brother Eric. He gets a ride on a carriage to his family home, where his mother greets him after many years apart. ![]() Nils Ericson gets off the train at his hometown. It was first published in "McClure's" in August 1912. It was written when Cather was living in Cherry Valley, New York with Isabelle McClung whilst " Alexander's Bridge" was being serialised in " McClure's". The Bohemian Girl is a short story by Willa Cather. ![]()
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