My Antonia | Characters
My Antonia has a double protagonist, being at one and the same time the story of Antonia Shimerda and the story of how the narrator Jim comes to consider her the symbol of his childhood and of the pioneer era. From the moment the two of them arrive in Nebraska on the same train, Jim an orphan from Virginia who will be cared for by his grandparents on their comfortable farm, and Antonia an immigrant from Bohemia who will have to face all the trials of the first-generation immigrant pioneer, to the end of the story when they are reunited in middle age, Jim is consistently used as a...
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