Category: My Antonia

The land, like the story, represents both growth and development and the concept of identity as it links closely to the landscape of the characters lives. At the beginning of the novel, the country ultimately represents change as an unfamiliar new beginning for both Antonia and Jim. Jim, for example, first encounters the landscape in…

The narrator Jim Burden, the narrator of Cathers novel, is a man, who is described as legal counsel for one of the great Western railways and is often away from his office for weeks together (Cather, p.1), giving the indication that our narrator is an educated, well-respected man who though settled with a wife and…

My Antonia by Willa Cather is a novel that has been enjoyed many people throughout the century. This wonderful novel centers around a man by the name of Jim Burden and his point of view of a Bohemian woman with the name of Antonia Shimerda during the time of westward expansion in the late nineteenth…