A woman has always been told to behave like a lady, to be proper and to show good manners. The story of women is told through books, actions and through history. A woman's role is usually described as pure and very welcoming. Will Cather created the character of Marian Forrester in her book "A Lost Lady" as a woman of the highest caliber who leaves her mark on everyone who meets Mrs. Forrester. Because in pioneer times women were divided into social classes like the upper division called aristocrats, and then there was the lower division woman who did all the labor work. A woman should be a wife and stand behind her husband and not question the role played by a wife. Gender role played a key factor during Mrs. Forrester's identity development. In the way that Mrs. Forrester started as a simple wife of Mr. Forrester, her character began to develop into a very dynamic woman who breaks the rules she was supposed to follow. Mrs. Forrester is supposed to convey a soft side to every person who enters the Forrester home on the hill. From having it all to losing it, Mrs. Forrester never truly changed, even after her husband's death. In fact she had lost herself for some time living alone in her house with Ivy Peters coming in and out of her house. Then later she sold her property to Ivy and traveled west (California) ended up getting married for the second time to a very rich man and started her old way of living that life until the day she died. Niel was the man close to Mrs. Forrester, meaning he saw his identity change because he knew he could control men with his feminine charms until they died, those spells helped him reach that high position. The way people are viewed through this already established norm creates this image as Mrs. Forrester, a careless young woman married to a husband who was more of a friend to her, which leads to the way she