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

Cather, Willa
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
My Antonia: Book 2, Chapters 8 - 15

Character Analysis: Book II, Chapters 8 to 15

Jim Burden:

In this section Jim is seen as the lonely outsider generally at odds with
the town. When he rejects the Progressive Euchre Club and its successor, the
Owls, and deliberately courts criticism by associating with the country girls,
he is taking a strong stand against certain Black Hawk values.

Jim, it must be remembered, was not born in Black Hawk, or even in
Nebraska. He arrived as a boy of ten from a distant and very different part of
the United States. So ...

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