5/18/2023 0 Comments The Bohemian Girl by Willa Cather![]() Grandfather Burden is "rather narrow in religious matters," but is also generous and fair. Josiah Burden Jim's grandfather - reserved, dignified, and taciturn. Despite many hardships in her life, Ántonia remains vitally alive and never loses hope for the future. Ántonia (ANN-toe-knee-uh) ("Tony") Shimerda She arrives at the Nebraska prairie the same night that Jim does, and they grow up together as neighbors. Jim Burden He relates a long series of memories about growing up on the Nebraska prairie with Ántonia, a Bohemian girl who seems to embody for him "the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood." Jim has had many disappointments as an adult, and he glorifies his childhood as the happiest time in his life. Because Cather drew many incidents and people in this novel from her own life, her intent in creating this anonymous narrator may have been, in part, to dissuade readers from identifying Cather with first-person narrator Jim. ![]() ![]() The Narrator Jim Burden gives the manuscript for My Ántonia to the unnamed narrator in the introduction to the novel. Book IV: The Pioneer Woman's Story: Chapters I-IV.Book II: The Hired Girls: Chapters XI-XV.Book II: The Hired Girls: Chapters VIII-X.Book II: The Hired Girls: Chapters V-VII.Book II: The Hired Girls: Chapters I-IV.Book I: The Shimerdas: Chapters XVII-XVIII. ![]() Book I: The Shimerdas: Chapters XIV-XVI. ![]()
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