AO5: My Antonia Flashcards
James Miller - Antonia AD
“My Antonia does not portray, in any meaningful sense the fulfillment of the American Drea,m”
Kelly McCormick - footprint
“each immgrant’s story represents a footprint in the journey of the American Dream”
Yukman - Shim death
“Mr Shimerda dies a social death before his actual death”
William J Stuckey - Jim towards A
“Jim is attracted to Antonia’s warmth and vitality, but at the same time repelled by grosser aspects of her behaviour”
Lambert - Cather
“Cather succeeded because she could imagine women achieving identity and defining their own purpose”
Churchwell - unwed mother
“My Antonia is one of the earliest novels that is sympathetic towards an unwed mother”
Martin - frontier conditions
“[Mr Shimerda’s sucicide] is a testimony to the grim reality of the struggle imposed by frontier conditions”
Susan Rosowski - immigrants
“Cather was the first to give immigrants heroic stature in American Literature”
Sinclair Lewis - nebraska
Beacuse of My Antonia “The outside world knows Nebraska as no one else has done”
Kurt Anderson - novel
‘Novel of success and sacrifices it takes’
Betty Kort - country
‘Mythical quality, a legend of what it takes to make country’
