"The Land of Little Rain", by Mary Austin. Pallav Gupta California, O'California, the hopeless dream, the heartbeat of the mind, filled with sorrow and broken hearts, with little help from the wind gods; where the queen of the subtle and sarcastic presides over the nature of life. Mary Austin in the essay The Land of Little Rain (1903) elaborates on the nature of life in California, seen through the heart of a lost woman trying to …showed first 75 words of 794 total…

…showed last 75 words of 794 total…dream and greed for the love of the divine, Mary states, "It is hard to escape the sense of mastery as the stars move in the wide clear heavens to risings and settings un-obscured". She finally gives up, unable feel what the men who come to California feel on their way, which ends up in the stars and heavens. To the stars she leaves the settings of life, her own and those of the Californians.