My Antonia

In Willa Cather's novel "My Antonia" she talks about how she views the pioneer time.  She says that they lived the simple life only needing necessities.  During that time needed alot of land for farming, know how to communicate with other farmers, money and needed people to help work your farms to grow enough food to survive.

My Antonia is told in the perspective of another main character. Jim, but if the story was told in Antonia's perspective the whole story would change and be told in a different way.  Jim came from a whole different background. He was obdurate, richer, born and raised in America and had plenty of land.  Antonia on the other hand was poor, struggled to grow enough food to survive and was a immigrant to America.

Willa Cather being a woman was trying to tell this novel in a mans point of view, showing the situation that Jim is in.  If the author would have been a man, this story would have been completely different. Jim would have acted like a totally different person. With the author being a woman it sounds like a woman trying to sound like a man, she tells all of Jim's feelings and about how much he cares for Antonia. She does not sound like a man at all.

Jim changes the title in my opinion because he understands Antonia, he knows what she has gone through and what she has lived through.  Though they may have never became a couple he still cares for her and they were really close. 

This novel shows the way that pioneers struggled during that time period. It also showed all of the hardships immigrants faced as they came to America.  I believe that a sequel in Antonia's point of view would be a very good sequel to this book.