My Ántonia is told from the point of view of Willa Cather’s fictional friend, Jim Burden. He writes in the first person, and his use of the pronoun “I” makes you feel his personal involvement. The point of view is immediate and subjective. While Jim is away, Ántonia gets engaged to a local boy and moves to Denver in order to be with him. Days before the wedding, the boy -abandons Ántonia, and she returns to Nebraska heartbroken. She covers up an unexpected pregnancy throughout its term, but in giving birth to a daughter incurs the disapproval of her family. My Ántonia (Great Plains Trilogy #3), Willa Cather My Ántonia is a novel published in by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It is the final book of her "Great Plains trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark/5(8K).
Willa Cather has books on Goodreads with ratings. Willa Cather's most popular book is My Ántonia (Great Plains Trilogy, #3). My Ántonia (Chap. ) Willa Cather. He was telling a long story, and as he went on, Ántonia took my hand under the table and held it tight. She leaned forward and strained her ears to hear. My Ántonia by Willa Cather, , Pocket Books edition, in English.
My Ántonia is told from the point of view of Willa Cather’s fictional friend, Jim Burden. He writes in the first person, and his use of the pronoun “I” makes you feel his personal involvement. The point of view is immediate and subjective. My Ántonia (/ ˈ æ n t ə n i ə / AN-tə-nee-ə) is a novel published in by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century. MY ÁNTONIA BOOK I THE SHIMERDAS I. I FIRST heard of Ántonia 1 on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia relatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska.
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