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An Analysis Of Willa Cather's O Pioneers !
Willa Cather has written different versions of her pieces or work. At times she has changed the wording, added or even taken pieces of the novel or passage out. One example of this is her novel O Pioneers!. In the later version of this novel, she takes out a passage in the chapter of VIII. In the passage that removed there was an important quote that was removed with it. This quote was “two white butterflies ... fluttering in and out among the interlacing shadows; diving and soaring, now close together, now far apart; and in the long grass by the fence the last wild roses of the year opened their pink hearts to die” (139-140 in the Vintage edition). This quote has a significant meaning to the passage and novel. There is a certain meaning to

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