Wild Bára

[3] Bára[a] was single child of a shepherd Jakub whose wife died a long time ago.

[3] Bára grows up as a good-natured girl, but her independence and unusual behavior are met with the prejudice from the villagers.

A strong and emotional friendship develops between Bára and priest's daughter Elška.

[4] Elška falls in love with a medical student from Prague, but she had to marry the manor steward Sláma.

[5] Alfred Thomas argues that the two contrasting characters of the two heroines (plain and masculine Bára and pretty and feminine Elška) "reflect the two halves of writer's identity".