Have you ever divinely connected with a particular landscape that associated with your current feelings? In Willa Cather memoir, “My Antonia” the setting and landscape throughout the story mirrors the characters feelings, foreshadows events changes, and past memories. Jim, just one particular character made many connections with the Nebraska landscape.
Willa Cather the first child of a farm family was in born Virginia in 1873. At the age of nine, Cather moved to a farm in Nebraska, and then shortly after she moved to town in Red Cloud where she attended college at the University of Nebraska at LIncoln. She wrote frequent articles for magazines companies. Out of college she was a high school English teacher and a magazine editor. By …show more content…
The setting of weather, mirrors a circumstance change of the death of Mr. Shimerdas. “All day the storm went on. The snow did not fall this time, it simply spilled out of Heaven” (Cather 46). They were experiencing the worst blizzard in the ten years that Jim’s grandfather has lived in Nebraska. Such a fierce storm it was, it surely must have to foreshadow an upcoming event. As Maria Ornella Treglia states it, “In My Ántonia, detailed descriptions of nature, including the landscape, the changing of seasons, and the unpredictable winter storms, portray the main characters' psychological states of mind and foreshadow major events.” Besides the fact, the Shimerdas were poor in the United States, life was good for them when comparing it to the suicide of Mr. Shimerda. Dark clouds, cold, windy, and unpleasant weather usually indicates loss or hardships, a common theme portrayed throughout Hollywood. The dreadful blizzard mirrors the catastrophe feelings and loss of reaction the Shimerdas family and friends were experiencing, “Poor soul, poor soul!’ grandmother groaned” (Cather 48). They were all stricken with sadness and deep sorrow. Expecsouly Antonia, "It expresses Ántonia's grief and foreshadows her hard work on the farm that lies ahead” (Treglia). Following the death of Mr. Shimerdas, Antonia works sensationally hard for a women, such as working the …show more content…
To the very beginning of the story when Jim, got off the train, to the end of the story when Jim leaves after visiting Antonia, Willa Cather uses the road to display the setting in her story. The setting of the road, represents the life of Jim, and his past memories. James E. Miller, Jr.describes the road as, “leading not into the future, but into the past, fast fading from the landscape, fast fading from memory.” At the end of the story, when Jim looks at the road, he did not look to see what was to come, but instead all of his past memories he had with Antonia. “This was the road over which Antonia and I came on that night when we got off the train at Black Hawk… The feelings of that night were so near that I could reach out and touch them with my hand” (Cather 175). The old, long road mirrors Jim’s life. After Jim left and went to college and came back, the road had changed as Jim remembered it used to look like, just as Jim’s life had change. Jim had not seen Antonia in over twenty years, and over that time, Antonia did not even recognize Jim, “My husband’s not at home, sir. Can I do anything” (Cather 157)? Just as Jim had not seen Antonia in over twenty years, he had not seen the road he grew up on in over twenty years too. In the same way, how Jim hardly recognize the road where he got off of the train at Black
Willa Cather the first child of a farm family was in born Virginia in 1873. At the age of nine, Cather moved to a farm in Nebraska, and then shortly after she moved to town in Red Cloud where she attended college at the University of Nebraska at LIncoln. She wrote frequent articles for magazines companies. Out of college she was a high school English teacher and a magazine editor. By …show more content…
The setting of weather, mirrors a circumstance change of the death of Mr. Shimerdas. “All day the storm went on. The snow did not fall this time, it simply spilled out of Heaven” (Cather 46). They were experiencing the worst blizzard in the ten years that Jim’s grandfather has lived in Nebraska. Such a fierce storm it was, it surely must have to foreshadow an upcoming event. As Maria Ornella Treglia states it, “In My Ántonia, detailed descriptions of nature, including the landscape, the changing of seasons, and the unpredictable winter storms, portray the main characters' psychological states of mind and foreshadow major events.” Besides the fact, the Shimerdas were poor in the United States, life was good for them when comparing it to the suicide of Mr. Shimerda. Dark clouds, cold, windy, and unpleasant weather usually indicates loss or hardships, a common theme portrayed throughout Hollywood. The dreadful blizzard mirrors the catastrophe feelings and loss of reaction the Shimerdas family and friends were experiencing, “Poor soul, poor soul!’ grandmother groaned” (Cather 48). They were all stricken with sadness and deep sorrow. Expecsouly Antonia, "It expresses Ántonia's grief and foreshadows her hard work on the farm that lies ahead” (Treglia). Following the death of Mr. Shimerdas, Antonia works sensationally hard for a women, such as working the …show more content…
To the very beginning of the story when Jim, got off the train, to the end of the story when Jim leaves after visiting Antonia, Willa Cather uses the road to display the setting in her story. The setting of the road, represents the life of Jim, and his past memories. James E. Miller, Jr.describes the road as, “leading not into the future, but into the past, fast fading from the landscape, fast fading from memory.” At the end of the story, when Jim looks at the road, he did not look to see what was to come, but instead all of his past memories he had with Antonia. “This was the road over which Antonia and I came on that night when we got off the train at Black Hawk… The feelings of that night were so near that I could reach out and touch them with my hand” (Cather 175). The old, long road mirrors Jim’s life. After Jim left and went to college and came back, the road had changed as Jim remembered it used to look like, just as Jim’s life had change. Jim had not seen Antonia in over twenty years, and over that time, Antonia did not even recognize Jim, “My husband’s not at home, sir. Can I do anything” (Cather 157)? Just as Jim had not seen Antonia in over twenty years, he had not seen the road he grew up on in over twenty years too. In the same way, how Jim hardly recognize the road where he got off of the train at Black