My Antonia

Title: My Antonia
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 378 | Pages: 1.6 (approximately 235 words/page)

My Antonia

Realists always fall in love with the ones they grow up with.” (Robert Frost). Then they get married and live a happy life with each other. That is how the story is supposed to go, right? Well, in Willa Cather’s novel My Antonia, she puts a different spin on this fairy tale story. Despite their childlike affection for each other, Jim and Antonia, the main characters in the novel, cannot marry due to life’…showed first 75 words of 378 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 378 total…other hand, is happy with having food on the table, a roof overhead, and good friends. After looking at these important differences in their backgrounds, it is clear that Jim and Antonia would become a mismatched married couple. Throughout the novel My Antonia, Jim and Antonia love each other dearly. However, also present throughout the novel are certain life circumstances in which makes it apparent that Jim and Antonia cannot show their love in marriage.

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