Lena Lingard's change In the first half of the book Lena evolves slowly but surely as she moves from the country to the little town of black hawk, her progress is shown with the other working girls, yet it's more concentrated on by the author, I believe, to show the importance of this character to the story. Yet in the second half of the book Lena evolver into a business woman, hardly distinguishable from any …showed first 75 words of 551 total…

…showed last 75 words of 551 total…merely by showing that there is work outside the farm. "Lena's success puzzled me. She was so easygoing; had none of the push and self-assertiveness that get people ahead in business. She had come to Lincoln, a country girl." As you can tell many people were surprised in Lena's success, including Jim, Lena, through a change of scenery, was able to prove herself to not only Black Hawk but herself and those she held close.