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Willa Cather, writing in a proto-modernist era, grants Thea genuine agency. Thea’s ambition is not framed as monstrous but as sacred . Cather suggests that a woman can achieve greatness without becoming a villain—provided she renounces domesticity entirely and dedicates herself to transcendent art.

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