Cather’s focuses on Nebraska and the influx of European immigrants. She celebrates the cultures that each European place brings. Instead of having a huge sense of nationalism like most authors of her time, she seems to reject the products of the new world and uplifts the sense of culture that the European immigrants brought with them. An example of this would be when she compliments the immigrants’ food. She seems very impressed that, although it is not made in the location that it came from, the immigrants are able to still give it the authentic taste. Europe, during that time, was a model or pure country. Since people from European countries concentrated Nebraska, Nebraska became the purest state in America. In this essay she speaks of only the positive aspects of Nebraska. She doesn’t seem to speak of many people who were negatively affected during this time, such as African Americans or Native Americans. Although she does, for a brief moment, address Natives by saying they are “unbothered”, which is false, she doesn’t seem to include the harsh realities of life for everyone in Nebraska. This makes me question if she is so caught up in her fascination with European culture that she becomes ignorant to the world around her, or does she want her essay to match her racially utopian styled book?