Living in the Past: The Inevitable Inhibition of Realizing the American in Cather's My Ántonia

My Ántonia is a novel by Willa Cather. This novel is written in the form of a fictitious memoir. Jim Baden is the author of that memoir. This memoir records the childhood of his childhood friend, Antonia, who grew up in a small town named Black Hawk in Nebraska, Great Plains. The problem I have to ask myself is whether Jim has achieved American dreams. However, as a result of this question, more questions began to appear. First of all, what is the content of this book that leads someone to associate it with American dreams?

In the novel "My ntonia" by Willa Cather, we introduced an immigrant family named Shimerdas and her daughter Ántonia. Rather, it clearly shows that the power of the character can overcome all difficulties. Throughout Antonia's life, there was a lot of suffering and suffering affecting Antonia. Antonia's life is full of pain, but eventually her strong self can take it. He was obliged to work under severe conditions. Her master did not let him go out at night so she had to quit his job. The other man she was working on tried to harass her, so her childhood friend Jim was not at home, not Antonia. Through another work, Antonia completed the work. She has to do this to help her family

Willa Cather spent a lot of time in the countryside of Nebraska. My Antonia has lots of things I have achieved during that time. She knows a bohemian girl, she is a prototype of Ántonia. This area is nourished by immigrants. Many characters and events in this book are derived from life. Black Hawk is actually home of her Red Cloud. In a sense, this book is history, most of it is autobiography. Kaiser not only clarifies this aspect through factual elements but also reveals this through her general nostalgia of drawing a story. But the most important thing is that my Ántonia is fictitious. Cather changes her past into a romantic story, a deeper deepening story

At the time of writing, the symbol of Willa Cather's novel "My Whimsical" is almost gone, which is what Americans mean. Through the central relationship of the novel, Catherine's friendship between Virginian Jim Baden and Bohemian immigrant Antonia Simella explores the problem of American identity. The novel starts with an unknown narrator, a woman raised in Jim and Antonia, Nebraska. In this presentation the theme is to shape novel movement, discontinuous identity, and romance. Narrator met Jim Burden in adult surprisingly in the train of Iowa state, and the two reaffirmed and remembered Antonia representing "country, situation, our childhood adventure". page). In a narrator's proposal, Jim agreed to write a portrait of "Antonia".