Willa Cather

Feminist Critque on O Pioneers! Willa Cather’s, book O Pioneers represents a completely different way of life than traditional life is the early 1900’s . Traditionally, a man’s main job consits of hard labor and a woman’s job involves having children and focusing on home life. Although this happens to be the “norm” of the time, charcters in O Pioneers do quite the opposite. Carl Linstrum, a male character in the novel, does not come across as your “typical” 1900’s man. Another bold character…

F. Scott Fitzgerald & Willa Cather Vanda Mallo Keiser University Babylon Revisited Charlie Wales is the protagonist of "Babylon Revisited" (Fitzgerald, 1931), a former drunk and self-absorbed party-goer who returns to Paris, the site of his past 1920s decadence, to retrieve his daughter Honoria. Charlie sees his formal life with sober eyes, and is both shocked and appalled by its extravagance. At times he appears to come to terms with his mistakes and its consequences but sometimes…

Throughout the first reading assignment for My Ántonia Willa Cather uses vivid imagery to accentuate Jim Burden’s journey. The first signs of imagery are noted in the introduction where an unknown narrator describes the Nebraskan fields as “never-ending miles of ripe wheat.” There, under the “burning summers when the world lies green and billowy beneath a brilliant sky,” Burden’s childhood rears his love for the great country and he soon begins “to lose himself in those big Western dreams.” He…

Roskicky, Cather follows the life of a good, hard working man. First, Roskicky is given the news from a close friend/doctor that he is dying. Next, Roskicky reflects back on his life as he looks at the struggles he has had to endure, and everything he has now been blessed with. Lastly, Cather writes of Roskicky's death, and the people he affected in his life. Critical Evalution of Work Willa Cather effectively illustrates the importance of being content with what one already has. Cather…

novels encircling contentious affairs. Two of the most greatly recognized authors of the late nineteenth century, Kate Chopin and Willa Cather, wrote graciously about these issues, accentuating the need for such subjects to be considered. Together, The Awakening and My Ántonia unveil the problems revolving around society in the late 1880s. Written by Kate Chopin and Willa Cather respectively, both novels illustrate the impacts of being confined to society’s standards through a multitude of…

long as one works hard enough to do so. Many people believe the prosperity of immigrants is tied to how completely they embrace this ideal of the American Dream. While often thought of in a modern context, this idea is seen in older works as well. In Willa Cather’s My Ántonia and Ole Rølvaag’s Giants in the Earth, the attitude with which immigrants approach their new lives decides how prosperous they become. Many immigrants see the prairie as an opportunity, either for their families or for…

Whether literature turns out to be a bestseller or a paper weight is decided by two very critical elements. Together, setting and character work to build the foundation and plot to a story. Setting often drives the characters to act in very specific manners and can illustrate and exemplify critical changes and plot points. Characters not only create the very basis of the novel itself, but also help to establish conflict and can change how we view other characters through their actions and…

Technology and modernity alter people’s lives; then, people realize its disturbing effects such as “competition, stress, separation, and loneliness,” and seem to “return to their past time by imagination and memory”(Suksangdow 1). My Antonia by Willa Cather embodies the incredible nostalgia of these early settlers as they struggle to make a home on the Nebraskan plains at the turn of the 20th century.…

opportunistic settlers seized and further occupied the lands. Cather grew up in Virginia and moved to Nebraska when she was eight years old in 1884 with her father, always fascinated by her immigrant neighbors (Cather 499). When she entered university in _____, she began exploring her zeal for writing, and eventually published her first novel, ___. Within this time, she also became deeply entrenched in Native American culture and history. Willa Cather explored the frontier in her novel, My…

Written by Willa Cather, an author who “...understood and relished engaging in the artistic struggle between the new and the traditional, the fresh and the timeless, the fleeting and the permanent…”(Flannigan) forced readers to make a choice. The story is about the choices…