Willa Cather

This piece of paper will examine the problem aspects of the Bulgarian translation of chapter 1 of Willa Cather’s My Mortal Enemy. 1. Cultural Aspects: the transmitting of the clothes Myra and her husband wear might be a bit problematic. In the original text, the reader saw Myra Henshaw in black, velvet dress. The translator decided to put on Mayra not velvet but a silk dress (“жена в черна копринена рокля”). Perhaps, this was done because the image of a velvet dress in the Bulgarian reader’s…

individual that observes various forms of literature in the form of stories, plays, and poems. Willa Sibert Cather is the author of the short story called, “Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament” and this story specifically applies to almost any literary theory. Cather provides an abundance of information that allows for literary criticism with the influence of the various types of literary theories. Cather is known for using the life long experiences of herself, friends, and family to construct…

Willa Cather’s “A Wagner Matinee” was first published in 1904 and is a short story about a woman, named Georgiana, who finds herself transition from the ecstatic city of Boston, to the primitive Nebraska frontier. Cather’s “A Wagner Matinee” was inspired by Richard Wagner who was a German composer and conductor that lived from 1813 to 1883. He’s well known for his operas and his most famous work is that of “The Flying Dutchman”. Willa Cather, instead, wasn’t a musician but was an author of the…

love for him (Cather 83). What I wanted to know if the name Emil resembled his personality. My curiosity to see if Cather wanted to describe Emil being intelligent, charming, masculine, and caring. Either it was an accident or Cather actually researched the name Emil and what the name means. I went to look up the origins of the name Emil and this is what I got. Throughout the novel O’ Pioneers! Emil is portrayed in the book as an educated man and played an instrument in college (Cather 30). He’s…

Case” by Willa Cather focus on two main characters. Both Faulkner and Cather use their characters to prove a point or an outcome of a theory. Williams Faulkner uses Emily as his main character. Emily is a beautiful girl who used to live with her father. On the other hand Willa Cather used Paul as his main character. Paul is a high school student who also used to live with his father. Both stories focus on one main factor. In “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “Paul’s Case” by Willa…

The time period between 1915 and 1935 was greatly affected by WW1 and the Great Depression. The three modernist authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and Willa Cather all played important roles by reflecting the ideas, values, and themes of this historical period with their writing. Firtst, the well known author F. Scott Fitzgerald was mostly know for his book, The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is about a time in the 1920's when everyone was happy and had a carefree attitude.…

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…

Willa Cather once said, “The end is nothing; the road is all.”. This quote means that the end of a journey is not as important as the journey itself. While it may seem that it is talking about traveling on road, the quote itself is metaphoric in that the road and a journey are being compared. Some may argue that this isn’t true, but I agree with the quote. I think Willa Cather’s quote is genuine and meaningful because of my own life experiences. Willa Cather’s quote means the journey is more…

Gender dictates one’s life. Gender is the division that separates all of society. This is demonstrated in Willa Cather’s My Antonia, Mindy Kaling’s “Type of Women in Romantic Comedies Who are Not Real,” and Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “More Room.” In Willa Cather’s My Antonia two childhood friends, Antonia and Jim, reunite with each other to share their experiences throughout life and observe how they and their family go through life differently due to gender views. In Mindy Kaling’s “Type of Women in…

In Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome and Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady, the difficulty of obtaining the highly sought after “American Dream” is examined through the struggles of the characters in each respective novel. Wharton and Cather grapple with the American Dream as the set piece for a tragedy, in which they use different approaches to highlight the elusiveness and fragility of the idealized state of the American Dream. In Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton aims to idealize the American Dream through…