My Ántonia CRITICS

Question 1

James Miller

Answer 1

“My Antonia does not portray, in any meaningful sense the fulfilment of the American Dream”

Question 2

Kelly McCormick

Answer 2

“Each immigrant’s story represents a footprint in the journey of the American Dream”

Question 3

Yukman

Answer 3

“Mr Shimerda dies a social death before his actual death”

Question 4

William J Stuckey

Answer 4

“Jim is attracted to Antonia’s warmth and vitality, but at the same time repelled by grosser aspects of her behaviour”

Question 5

Lambert

Answer 5

“Cather succeeded because she could imagine women achieving identity and defining their own purpose”

Question 6

Churchwell

Answer 6

“My Ántonia is one of the earliest novels that is sympathetic towards an unwed mother”

Question 7

Martin

Answer 7

“[Mr Shimerda’s suicide] is a testimony to the grim reality of the struggle imposed by frontier conditions”

Question 8

Susan Rosowski

Answer 8

“Cather was the first to give immigrants heroic stature in American Literature”.

Question 9

Sinclair Lewis

Answer 9

Because of My Antonio “The outside world knows Nebraska as no one else has done”