Willa Cather

In the novels discussed in class, Sandra Cisneros, Willa Cather, and Kate Chopin, analyze the characteristics and critique the oppression of women through their works of literature. In stories like Woman Hollering Creek, My Antonia, and The Awakening, give us an image on the sufferings the oppressed women go through. They reveal an insight on the lives of the antagonized women through the disillusionment of love and marriage, prohibited desires, and restricted freedom. Cleofilas, from Woman…

The misrepresentation of Native Americans in The Professor’s House is a prime example of how early American literature chooses to falsely romanticize the southwest. Willa Cather follows this pattern with the characters Father Duchene, Tom Outland, and the professor, Godfrey St. Peter. Together these characters create a dangerous false narrative outside the novel. The problematic characterization of Native Americans is initiated by Duchene, lived by Outland, and is preserved by the professor.…

portray a person’s wants and reasons of living, but usually, the wants direct people to greed, selfishness, and negativity, instead of happiness and satisfaction. Unexpectedly, the real answer stems from improving and caring for the lives of others. Willa Cather wrote the book “Neighbor Rosicky” to portray the concept of the real answer in the main character, Anton Rosicky.…

“What is the city over the mountains/Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air/Falling towers/Jerusalem Athens Alexandria/Vienna London/Unreal.” Images such as this are prominent throughout T.S. Eliot’s poem, The Waste Land. These images depict, quite literally, the wasteland that society has become, and displays the fear that the author has for the future. Images of wastelands-desolation, isolation, destruction, ruin, the fall of nature- are dominate theme within modernist literature and…

Beardsley The third is Aubrey Vincent Beardsley. He was famous for his illustrations of “eccentric eroticism”. His works had no “proportion and perspective”, rather just curved lines in black and white. While with the Art Nouveau disappeared, his works were unpopular until 1966. In 1966, he created an illustration for the Beatles’ CD cover called Revolver, which was an innovation in this area because before him the CD covers were photographic portraits bands or singers. Dwiggins The fourth…

“A pioneer must have imagination and dreams,” says Willa Cather. On a Nebraska prairie, traveling back at least 30 years ago, there were two friends. Alexandra and Carl Linstrum. Alexandra and Carl has a good relationship with each other but there are dramatic differences between the two. Alexandra gives off an aura of independency, including the fact that she is a hard worker, smart, confident, stable, and has roots on the divide. Carl on the other hand, is opposite from…

calculates how well a relationship truly works. The Great Gatsby and Coming Aphrodite dually offer aspects of individuals who are immensely in love with each other, but end up ending their relationships. It is clearly evident in Coming Aphrodite by Willa Cather and in The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald that even though love between two parties is indisputable, it is not enough to overcome significant individual…

not appropriate based on societal norms. The consistent acknowledgement of both enigmatic qualities, variety, and richness as a source of inspiration for Willa Cather's novel 'A Lost Lady' according to the Journal of Nancy Morrow expresses the facts and realities of living conditions of the 19th century. This conditions of life lead Willa Cather to shows her view of how women were seen and treated in the 19th century and how critics debate on the novel. According to Nancy Morrow, one critic…

leave you with information that you must use to come to a well thought out, elaborate answer. However, these questions could be answered very simply, or never be answered within the work. “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck , “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather, and “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost, all raised the central question, “In what way does uncontrollable factors affect how one lives their everyday life?” Although each of these beautifully written works answer the question differently, they…

Modernist qualities are very prevalent in Willa Cather’s literary pieces, as well as being depicted within the themes of her writing. In the short stories “A Wagner Matinée” and “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” the imperative and recurring themes of tradition and conformity, greatly relate to Modernism. During this time period, the American people wanted to shift away from the expectations and pave their own way; no longer wanted to be limited or conform to society. This attitude most certainly…