Essays on My Antonia

Subversion of Gender Roles in Willa Cather’s My Antonia Willa Cather provides an inverted perspective on gender roles contrariwise to the societal norm during the nineteenth century in her novel, My Antonia. Cather’s feminist approach to this period illuminates a different perspective on the roles…

Flashbacks in My Ántionia In the first half of My Ántonia, by Willa Cather, the reader is introduced to James “Jim” Burden, who is shown as two different versions of himself; one as his current, wiser, and older self, and the other as his younger…

The Past is Passed I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never…

In Chapter VII of My Antonia, Cather uses a rattlesnake to symbolize one of the most important moments in the book. At the beginning of this passage, it is well known that Antonia is not only older, but also more traveled than Jim. Because of…