As Jim retells about his friend Antonia, she displace symbolized figure. Back in late nineteenth century, many people from Northwest Europe would come to the new world, America, to have a fresh start in life. Many immigrant children would work with their parents in order to survive in the new country. As a girl, Antonia was working in the fields breaking the stereotypes of women can not do the same things as men. Immigrant girls like Antonia, would face through racism from wealthy girls in town and because they would work as “hired girls”, they were seen as second class and would have sex with town boys. Willa Cather shows all the struggles that immigrants, especially immigrant girls, faced back in the late nineteenth century to the reader as a piece of history in the the
As Jim retells about his friend Antonia, she displace symbolized figure. Back in late nineteenth century, many people from Northwest Europe would come to the new world, America, to have a fresh start in life. Many immigrant children would work with their parents in order to survive in the new country. As a girl, Antonia was working in the fields breaking the stereotypes of women can not do the same things as men. Immigrant girls like Antonia, would face through racism from wealthy girls in town and because they would work as “hired girls”, they were seen as second class and would have sex with town boys. Willa Cather shows all the struggles that immigrants, especially immigrant girls, faced back in the late nineteenth century to the reader as a piece of history in the the