It appeared in the 1930's during the modernism era Cather’s writing often concerns the recent historical past and pioneering American characters. Her first book of poetry, April Twilights, was published in 1903, and her first book of fiction, Cather wrote “Neighbour Rosicky” during a period of time when income inequality in the United States was becoming unavoidably visible. Though the story was published in the midst of the Great Depression, it was written in 1928, just before the 1929 stock market crash. The story also concerns widening economic disparity between people living in rural America and urban America, and specifically between farmers and businessmen. It is considered modernism
