Mrs. Marian Forrester strikes readers as an appealing character by the way she evolves as a person from the beginning to the end of the novel A Lost Lady. She's little more than a woman married to an old man who worked in the railroad industry. She innovated to create a new type of women who moved from the old world to the new world. She is wanted to be a caring, vibrant, gracious and kind young woman, but then turns into a gold-digging, adulterous and deceptive woman from how she is interpreted throughout the book through the eyes of Niel Herbert. The way the reader is able to interpret Willa Cather on how Mr. and Mrs. Forrester fell in love is a concept that leads the reader to believe that it is simply psychological. As Mrs. Forrester goes through her experiences such as the death of her husband, the affairs she participated in with Frank Ellinger, etc., the reader witnesses a change in her mentally and internally. Mrs. Forrester becomes a much more complicated woman in that she struggles to find who she really is and she is a woman who wants to find love and be fruitful in wealth. A woman of many flaws, as the main character, it can be argued that Mrs. Forrester represents a woman who is ultimately lost in her path of personal transition. She loses herself because she cannot resist herself unless she is treated well by a rich man, which causes her to act differently from the person she really is. To begin, Willa Cather begins to portray Mrs. Forrester as a loyal, well-spoken, and charismatic woman. women loved by many residents of the small town of Sweet Water. A character like Niel, in which is the main character, finds Mrs. Marian Forrest...... middle of paper ......ain begins to know everything about the different sides of his wife. This basically begs the question of whether Mrs. Forrester has a true love for Mr. Forrester or was she just putting on an image that was all about the money that Mr. Forrester gave her. Although Mrs. Forrester is able to end her life as a happy person, before the reader has witnessed a huge change in her attitude towards life. This was due in large part to the difficult transition from the Old World to the New World that Mrs. Forrester endured. At first, Niel sees Marian as the ideal woman who represented the Old World, but did not realize that this was a false image. With this, he is lost when he cannot save "old" Mrs. Forrester. Mrs. Forrester leads to becoming what the reader knows as the famous lost lady who realizes that times have changed, especially with the passing of Mr. Forrester..