Mrs. Marian Forrester strikes readers as an appealing character because of the way she changes as a person from the beginning of the novel, A Lost Lady, to the end. It means little more than a woman married to an old man who worked in the railway industry. She innovated a new type of woman who moved from the old world to the new world. She is sought out to be a thoughtful, lively, graceful and kind young woman, but then turns into a gold-digging, adulterous and deceitful woman by the way she is portrayed throughout the book through the eyes of Niel Herbert. The way the reader is able to interpret Willa Cather as to how Mr. and Mrs. Forrester fell in love is a concept that leads the reader to believe that it is merely based on psychology. As Mrs. Forrester goes over her experiences such as the death of her husband, the affairs she took part in with Frank Ellinger, and so on, the reader witnesses a change in her mentally and internally. Mrs. Forrester becomes a much more complicated woman as she struggles to discover who she truly is and that is a woman who wants to find love and be fruitful in wealth. Being a woman with a multitude of flaws, as the main character it can be argued that Mrs. Forrester signifies a woman who ultimately gets lost in her personal transition journey. She loses herself because she cannot stand up for herself unless she is treated well by a rich male, which makes her behave differently from the person she truly is. To begin, Willa Cather begins to portray Mrs. Forrester as a loyal, well-spoken, and charismatic person. women loved by many residents of the small town, Sweet Water. A character like Niel, of which he is the protagonist, finds Mrs. Marian Forrest... middle of paper... Ain begins to know everything about his wife's different side. Basically the question is, does Mrs. Forrester have true love for Mr. Forrester or was she just creating an image that was solely about the money that Mr. Forrester gave her. Although Mrs. Forrester is able to end her life as a happy person, before the reader witnesses a huge change in her attitude towards life. In large part this was due to the difficult transition from the Old World to the New World that Mrs. Forrester underwent. Initially, Niel finds Marian to be the ideal woman who represented the Old World, but does not realize that this is a false image. That said, he is perplexed when he fails to save the "old" Mrs. Forrester. Mrs. Forrester leads to becoming what the reader knows as the acclaimed lost lady who faces the realization that times have changed especially with the death of Mr. Forrester..