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Values Of Society Mother Woman
1,311 wordsWilla Cather tends to portray static characters with little depth, yet she seems to approach her female characters with an air of liberalism that allows for a more well-rounded exploration of society than is found in the works of other contemporary authors. Cather depicts women as both the classic mother woman and the independent individual. Allowing her to free the female character from heir reliance on men. Her women are not just mothers, daughters, or wives; they are characters of their own -...
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Moved To New York Antonia And Jim
1,606 words1. Jim Burden, a successful New York City lawyer, leaves an acquaintance a memoir of his Nebraska childhood in the form of a recollection of their mutual friend, Antonia Shimerda. Jim had first arrived in Nebraska at the age of ten, when he was made the trip west to live with his grandparents after finding himself as an orphan in Virginia. On this same train, Jim has his first glimpse of the Shimerda's, a Bohemian immigrant family traveling in the same direction. As fate would have it, the Shime...
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Antonia Willa Cather Willa Cather Wrote Women
849 wordsWILLA CATHER WROTE WHAT SHE LIVED Sara Orne Jewett, a local colorist from Maine, once suggested that Willa Cather write from her own background. Cather followed that advice and became famous for her stories of the American frontier; especially those about heroic women who struggled to tame the prairies of Nebraska and the Southwest. Cather's first novel was published in 1912 and was called Alexanders Bridge. In 1913 came O Pioneers! which took its title from a poem by Walt Whitman. My Antonia, p...
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University Of Nebraska Willa Cather
1,583 wordsThere are few female authors that have had an impact on literature as great as that of Willa Cather. Not only was she an exquisite author, but she broke through into writing during a time when few female authors were successful. Her life, which was directly influential to her writing, was of a simple nature. However, she was able to over come a drab, mundane life, and turn her experiences into stories that would be enjoyed by many generations. Willa Siebert Cather was born in her maternal grandm...
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Moved To New York Antonia And Jim
1,613 words1. Jim Burden, a successful New York City lawyer, leaves an acquaintance a memoir of his Nebraska childhood in the form of a recollection of their mutual friend, Antonia Shimerda. Jim had first arrived in Nebraska at the age of ten, when he was made the trip west to live with his grandparents after finding himself as an orphan in Virginia. On this same train, Jim has his first glimpse of the Shimerda's, a Bohemian immigrant family traveling in the same direction. As fate would have it, the Shime...
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