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Viola Roseboro': a prototype for Cather's My Mortal Enemy.(Critical Essay)

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From: The Mississippi Quarterly
Date: 20001222
Author:Skaggs, Merrill M.

THOUGH GREAT FICTION WRITERS SCULPT CHARACTERS we can know more intimately than any who merely walk by us, novelists frequently begin their fictional creations with models suggested by real people. That practice was certainly the habit of such literary geniuses as William Faulkner, Henry James, and Willa Cather. In fact, tracking down and documenting the lives of Cather prototypes such as Annie Sadilek, whom Cather transformed into Antonia Shimerda and Mary Rosicky, occupies Cather scholars and delights Cather students. Yet for all the researching that can link even minor Cather ...

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