" It took a clear, meditative eye like my grandfather’s to foresee that they would enlarge and multiply until they would be, not the Shimerdas’ cornfields, or Mr. Bushy’s, but the world’s cornfields; that their yield would be one of the great economic facts, like the wheat crop of Russia, which underlie all the activities of men, in peace or war. " This quote is a very well known passage from the widely known novel My Antonia by Willia Cather. In this novel, we follow a boy named Jim Burden along his coming of age with a girl he knows as Antonia. In the chapter where this quote is located, we find Jim Burden looking over the fields of the Nebraska Territory. In the novel's exploration of the interaction between the Midwestern landscape
