By Harold Bloom
Willa Cather?s My Antonia, a nostalgic novel approximately an prior the USA, portrays the harmonies and disharmonies of the human global and the realm of nature. This novel gathers jointly the very best feedback to be had at the textual content, which covers such parts in the textual content as wish and reminiscence, the yankee Dream, intercourse, and extra. The name, Willa Cather’s My Antonia, a part of Chelsea apartment Publishers’ sleek serious Interpretations sequence, offers crucial 20th-century feedback on Willa Cather’s My Antonia via extracts of severe essays through famous literary critics. This number of feedback additionally encompasses a brief biography on Willa Cather, a chronology of the author’s lifestyles, and an introductory essay written by way of Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the arts, Yale collage.
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Nativism infected all sections of the country and every class, but it was not new. “If I were to put upon the printed page some of the epithets applied to . . people from central Europe . . by their prairie and backwoods neighbors, in the seventies and eighties,” observes a Nebraska educator in 1929, “I greatly fear it would not add to the growing cordiality between this group and the rest of us” (Rosicky, History 16). The growing movement for regulation of immigration argued that the arrival of cheap foreign labor was not only undesirable competition but a contribution to the widening and hardening gap between rich and poor (Warne 316).
It is also a threat to the immigrant, and here Cather takes considerable pains to make her point clear. In Ántonia, she writes a character whose moral isolation is all but total, who must do without the support of extended family and tradition, who must rely on herself alone to make her marital arrangements, and who at first fails disastrously. In the Old World, she would have lived, as virtually all Czech immigrants had, in a village community and would have been courted by someone like Cuzak to begin with (Kutak 10–11; Swehla 474).
223). Like flies the men begin to circle around her—the iceman, the delivery boys, the young farmers from the divide; and her employer, Mr. Harling, a demanding, intimidating, patriarch insists that she give up the dances where she The Defeat of a Hero 33 attracts so much attention. When she refuses, he banishes her from his family. Next becoming the object of her new employer’s lust, Ántonia loses Jim’s affection and, by the end of the summer, has embarked on a disastrous affair with the railroad conductor, Donovan.
