![]() "Is the emphasis in the novel's title on the pronoun or the noun, or, to put it differently, is this Ántonia's story or Jim's?" Quite honestly, I don't think that's the point at all. ![]() The introductory notes to my edition make a fairly big deal of the possessive "my" in the title. The novel is divided into five books that roughly follow the stages of Ántonia and Jim's lives and ends with Jim's return to Nebraska to visit Ántonia one more time. Jim and Ántonia form a strong bond somewhere between friendship and siblings and first love-later in the book Jim will admit that he loves Ántonia, but she will not accept his declaration. On the same train are the Shimerdas-the Bohemian family who have come over from the old country to take possession of land which they have bought sight unseen. ![]() Jim's parents have died and he travels by train to Nebraska where he will live with his grandparents. The novel consists, primarily, of Jim Burden's memories of life on the Nebraska prairie and his interactions with Ántonia and her Bohemian family. My Ántonia by Willa Cather is the final book of her "pioneer trilogy" of novels.and I must confess that I haven't read the other two. April Vintage Mystery Challenge Reviews. ![]() Murder at the Museum of Natural History: Review. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |