Corruption of the Characters in Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady

Abstract

This writing studies about corruption of the characters in the novel entitled A Lost Lady by Willa Cather. The mimetic approach is used to analyze this novel. So in creating art, an author is much influenced by the social condition of society in which he lives or creates, directly or indirectly. It can be learned that progression does not always make people happy but often it brings difficulties and even disaster in their lives. It is also found that the corruption in the new society happens because the characters are unable to endure their passionate nature as well as to adapt with the changing.To anticipate the changing, one must have a strong mentality among other things, by religion or a good education in order that he does not fall into such corruption as the characters in A Lost Lady.

Keywords: corruption, ambition, passionate, new values, old values