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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Cather, Willa

Cather, Willa
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
My Antonia: Book 1, Part 1

Introduction

During a hot summer's train ride through Iowa, the narrator (conceivably
Willa Cather herself) meets a childhood friend, Jim Burden. Now a successful
New York lawyer, Burden is married to a brisk, insensitive woman of means, who
fancies herself a patron of the arts. She seems incapable of enthusiasm, and
the narrator dislikes her. Jim, however, is still the romantic personality he
was as a boy.

On the trip, the two friends recall Antonia, a Bohemian girl they once
knew who symbolize to both all that was fine and ...

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