There is the drunken music professor, Professor Wunsch, who first steers her on the path to music and then is driven away from Moonstone because of his drunkenness, never to be seen or heard from again. There is Ray Kennedy, a poor railroad man who is secretly in love with her and leaves her money when he is killed in a railroad accident. Archie, the local doctor but a man who remains her friend for life. But she is helped on her way by many people. Her family is poor and can barely afford the cost of her training, so she has to work and struggle to get there. Gradually, she claws her way out of Moonstone, first to Chicago, then to Dresden and finally to New York, becoming a famous opera singer. It is the story of Thea Kronborg, the daughter of a preacher in Moonstone, Nebraska, brought up in the rough Western environment. Song of the Lark was, apparently, Cather’s favourite of her novels. Home » USA » Willa Cather » Song of the Lark Willa Cather: Song of the Lark
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