My Antonia. Question #9 Willa Cather’s novel, My Antonia, is set in the early twentieth century in the frontier town of Black Hawk, Nebraska. Cather’s story is often praised for its pastoral depiction of life on the American frontier and for the diverse, hardworking people who settled it. As the young Jimmy Burden notice while traveling across the plains, “There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made (Cather p.14).” In My Antonia, many of Cather’s
frontier” (Wild West Cowboy). The novel, My Antonia by Willa Cather, expresses this often forgettable side of the American west. My Antonia is a heartfelt story that tells the story of Jim Burden and his life in the western frontier. Jim meets many people in his days living in Nebraska and the memories he shares with them, especially Antonia Shimerda, stays with him all throughout his life and they often give him comfort along with homesickness. Not only does Willa Cather tell of this, but she also reveals
Themes of Willa Cather's novels O Pioneer! and My Antonia. People have made many critical responses of Willa Cather's novels. Two of her novels, O Pioneer! and My Antonia, have similar themes. Comparisons between the two novels will reveal characterization, hardships and adaptions, and how gender roles are defeated. First of all, characterization reflects in both stories because they both incorperate "love of the land" (Cather). O Pioneers! is a story of a girl that is basically lonely after the
My Ántonia is a novel written by Willa Cather, about the coming of age, using a style of writing that was popular around the late 18th century. Except for the introduction, the entire novel is written from Jim’s perspective as an adult man looking back on his childhood. Nearly the entire story is Jim relating accounts and memories emphasizing the youthful recollection put loosely together as Jim mentioned in the introduction by stating, “I didn’t take time to arrange it; I simply wrote down pretty