![]() ![]() Why does the incident at Wick Cutter's house make Jim feel that he never wants to see Ántonia again and that he hated her almost as much as he hated Cutterġ0. Why is Antonia so determined to keep going to the dancing tent that she would rather leave her job with the Harlings than stop dancing?ĩ. What is Cather suggesting about gender roles with the characters Frances, Antonia, and Lena?Ĩ. Why does Jim prefer "the hired girls" to the Black Hawk girls? Is Frances right when she says that Jim puts "a kind of glamour" over the hired girls? (p. ![]() Why does Cather repeatedly include images of people and objects silhouetted against the sun? What does the vision of the plough mean to Jim?Ħ. ![]() Who or what does Cather intend us to see as responsible for Mr. ![]() Why does Pavel's story about the wolves and the wedding party affect Jim and Ántonia so deeply?Ĥ. When Jim and Ántonia meet as children, why do they become such close friends?ģ. Why is getting "a picture" of Ántonia important enough to Jim and the narrator of the introduction that they decide to write about her? (p. You'll find two sets of questions below-the first from Penguin Classics, the second from Random House (Bantam Classics).ġ. ![]()
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