Feminist Analysis Of Antonia By Willa Cather

Jim always said Antonia had a certain arrogance to her. However, having to work on the farm to keep her family stable must have made her view life differently. She should have learned that keeping up a family is hard work. She grew up in a relatively poor family when they moved from Bohemia to America. The family had to deal with great loss and misfortune. Dealing with all of this as a child taught Antonia to have respect for others who were working hard, as she was one of those hard workers at a young age.
Willa Cather was an inspiration to all women writers. It took great courage to be a published author as a female during the time period. Her novel shows the reader that the woman shouldn’t be confined to the house and the man confined to work. She most likely wrote this with the intent of making society see her point of view on gender roles in the home to make the country merge into this new perspective to become the country America is today. …show more content…
However, her family is struggling just like hers did when she was a child. This pattern could be represented to show that Antonia might kill herself like her father, or to represent that Antonia was stronger than her father, even though she is a female. I think this is to prove that women are strong and resilient, because that is one of the themes of the novel.
I think Antonia went to the town dances for both enjoyment and to prove a point. Antonia worked really hard, so going to the dances was something fun to do to escape her grueling work life. Antonia was also told that she mustn’t return to the dances by her employer. She continued to attend them to show her individuality and that she doesn’t belong to