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My Antonia - New/Old World (Coming of age (Antonia getting pregnant, Jim…
My Antonia - New/Old World
Mr. Shimerda
Broken/FOIL
Mrs Shimerda
ii. Otto Fuchs
iii. Antonia 'like man' 'boots'
Gentle, Civilised (clothes) -class (Violin) Cultured.
Mrs. Shimerda
-'Get husbands' - 'Get land' sharp. fierce.
Flashbacks
-Peter/Pavel Wolves/Wedding (shame)
-Lena Sweden - 'rags' (economic)
Freedom Inependance
Female power
Dream
Ambition
Put down roots in the
land
= success
adult
/poor
their
children
- build wealth/inheritence
Otto/Jake
-Drift
Weakness
Mrs. Shimerda - broken
symbolism
death of old world? Death of traditions. Importance of youthful Strength
Ole/Crazy Mary (Lena)
victim
? of her own beauty but she rises above it
Sexual
Comical
Unsettling
Coming of age
Antonia getting pregnant
Jim murders innocent snake
Jim/Cutter
Made observant by coming of a tender age from an old country, to a new
Freedom to choose to dance
Lena/Tiny 'hired girls'
-> Wealthy
Jim = nostalgia
Antonia's father's boots
'like a man'
Wick Cutter
-Similar to Ole but different
-Horror/Comedy
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