In this writing, Cather addresses her European roots with potent emotion and champions the European mentality to American. Multiple times in “Nebraska” does she point out the cultureless United States, rather pointing the Europe as the cradle of civilization”. For this reason I find it interesting that she becomes such a contributor to the documenting of and understanding of American culture, which she repudiates so strongly in this text. Furthermore I think she points to a question which is applicable to many children of immigrants; that is, now that your parents have succeeded through work in this new world, what now? Immigrant parents express their hope that by settling elsewhere they would provide a better life for their children, one free of the burdens that they themselves have endured. Cather condemns the emphasis put on materialism by these children of immigrants, however she fails to find a substitute.