of this story, the reader easily senses that this old fashioned town run with hard work and honesty is careless. The author does an excellent job of describing individuals in the town such as, "Percy Pound who took half a dozen boys story papers and was always kept in reading detective stories behind the desk (Cather 413). Cathers writing style shows an "unhampered zest for enjoyment"(Wells). The reader gets the feeling that the character Percy Pound is a young laid back inquisitive boy who likes adventures. Willa Cather not only uses local color to show descriptions of the characters in the story but also in conveying the setting. Willa Cather provides vivid imagery throughout the story to set the relaxed tone. The reader imagines a very descriptive portrait of the boys hometown when the story mentions how " the oblique rays of the light made a dazzling glare on the white sand about us (Cather 411). "Realities and fantasiesher art is a method of preserving the wonder of youthful happiness (Wells). When reading this Willa Cather paints a vivid portrait of where the six boys would unwind and chatter about the latest occurrences. The river was brown and sluggish, like any other of the half dozen streams that water the Nebraska corn lands "(Cather 411). The reader gets a feeling that " Willa Cather art is essentially one of gazing beyond the immediate scene to a timeless sky or a timeless room (Wells). The tone of this quote is that the river symbolized freedom and leisure time for the boys. " The sand bar grew fresher and smelled of the rank ironweed and sunflowers growing on the flatter shore (Cather 411). Cathers works are popular because, "the hearth of human worth of feeling pervades everything is fire pervades the center of the earth "(Wells). The reader gets a feeling that they are actually in the Nebraska cornfields. Through the setting the relaxed tone of "The Enchanted Bluff" is revealed. With the use of local color, Willa Cather...
