O Pioneers!

by Willa Cather

O Pioneers!: Flashbacks 1 key example

Part 2, Chapter 7
Explanation and Analysis—Origin Story:

Part 2, Chapter 7 is a flashback to Marie's childhood and the way she met Frank:

Marie’s father, Albert Tovesky, was one of the more intelligent Bohemians who came West in the early seventies. He settled in Omaha and became a leader and adviser among his people there. Marie was his youngest child, by a second wife, and was the apple of his eye. She was barely sixteen, and was in the graduating class of the Omaha High School, when Frank Shabata arrived from the old country and set all the Bohemian girls in a flutter.