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“Family, Neighbour, and Sympathetic Love in Neighbour Rosicky.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 36.4(2010): 37-54. In Neighbor Rosicky, Willa Cather portrays the meaning of family, neighbour, and sympathetic love of Anton Rosicky who has lived close to the land in the country. He faces his own impending death after Dr. Burleigh tells him he has a bad heart. Anton Rosicky, however, is never frustrated, but reflect on the important events that have marked his life. He is not afraid of dying, he faces it with courage. Cather strikingly illustrates the connection between life and death through the images of the graveyard which occurs twice in Neighbor Rosicky. This particular graveyard is not a place where life ends, but where it is completed beautifully. Throughout his life Rosicky was an optimist who truly cared for his family and the neighbours around him. Indeed, at the end of the story Dr. Burleigh observes, after Rosicky’s death, that “Rosicky’s life seemed to him complete and beautiful.” It can be said that though Rosicky has a bad heart, he has one of the best hearts a human being can have. (PaiChai University)