However, when one of Willa's stories for a writing class got published, she discovered a passion for writing. In Red Cloud, she had spent time with and learned from a local doctor, and she dreamed of becoming a physician. She moved to the state capitol in Lincoln in order to study for entrance at the University of Nebraska. Willa graduated from Red Cloud High School in 1890. Indeed, many of Willa's characters are inspired by people she met in her youth: another notable example is Olive Fremstad, an opera singer, who inspired the character Thea Kronborg in her novel The Song of the Lark. While living in the town, Willa met Annie Sadilek, whom she later used for the Antonia character in her novel My Antonia.
Her mother was a vain woman, mostly concerned with fashion and trying to turn Willa into "a lady," in spite of the fact that Willa defied the norms for girls and cut her hair short and wore trousers. The family never became rich or influential, and Willa attributed their lack of financial success to her father, whom she claimed placed intellectual and spiritual matters over the commercial. A year later they moved to Red Cloud, a nearby railroad town, where her father opened a loan and insurance office. At the time her family included Willa's two brothers, a sister, and her grandmother. In 1883, the Cather family moved to join Willa's grandparents, William and Caroline, and her uncle, George, in Webster County, Nebraska. The family came to Pennsylvania from Ireland in the 1750's. She was the eldest child of Charles Cather, a deputy sheriff, and Mary Virginia Boak Cather. Willa Cather was born on Decemin Back Creek Valley, Virginia, a small farming community close to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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