Book · Book · 1918
Pass it on
My Ántonia
76Worth an evening.
The land, the immigrant work, and a narrator honest that he left. One of the great American books.
The review
Cather does not ask you to pity the Bohemian family. She asks you to notice that the town's refinement is thinner than Ántonia's kitchen. Jim Burden tells the story because he did not live it. That confession is the American one: the people who write the memory are often the ones who got on the train.
Read it. Then notice who in your own family stayed, and who only comes back to describe them.
Journal
Keep My Ántonia in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 76. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 9Industry
Sod houses, hired girls, a farm that either holds or breaks the people on it.
- 8Household
Ántonia's kitchen and her children are the victory the narrator cannot claim.
- 5Piety
Faith is the immigrants' habit. The book is more reverent of endurance than of God.
- 8Courage
She stays and bears the work after the men and the town have easier ideas.
- 6Republic
A prairie town with its snobberies. The hired girls see them clearly.
- 7Temperance
Hardship is not a costume. Neither is the later comfort.
- 9Truth
He admits he left, and that the fuller life was the one that stayed.
- 9Stewardship
The orchard and the children are what the prairie was for.
Where to read
Finding the page.
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