Both Uses of
vista
in
A Thousand Acres
- It was the same calm and safe vista that was mine every night—the one that I sometimes admitted to myself I'd been afraid to leave when high school was over and the question of doing something else came up.†
p. 27.6
- It created a whole orderly future within me, a vista of manageable days clicking past, myself in the foreground, large and purposeful.†
p. 148.5 *
Definition:
view
or more rarely:
a view of a possible future
or more rarely:
a view of a possible future