The landscape in “My Antonia” "This country was mostly wild pasture and as naked as the back of your hand. I was little and homesick and lonely and my mother was homesick and nobody paid any attention to us. So the country and I had it out together and by the end of the first autumn,that shaggy grass country had gripped me with a passion I have never been able to -Willa Cather (Internet #1) Her life task became portraying how the pioneers tamed the wild land. Cather's visual, and disarmingly simple, descriptions of prairie life and events that slowly unveil truly complex characters such as the protagonist Antonia Shimerda. I believe, if Cather had been born in Nebraska, the land and its people would probably not have played so important a role in her work. Her encounter with this new land was profound, even traumatic. Cather described th....

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