So Big (1924)

After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father Selina Peake returns to the United States where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole a dullwitted market gardener and finally marries Pervus DeJong a poor and backward farmer She shares the drudgery of her husbands futile life and finds happiness only in their small son Dirk whom she calls SoBig