My Antonia's Relationship Analysis

Throughout My Antonia, Jim learns more throughout their relationship. Jim is the narrator of the novel, so we get to see more inside his thoughts rather than Antonia’s, since the book is in Jim’s perspective. Jim in the beginning of the story is an intelligent, orphaned, and alienated young boy. As the novel progresses, he learns and grows from Antonia and the way she lives. They spend much of their time together playing games and passing time. As Antonia’s life becomes more difficult after a long gruesome winter. She faces death, and self-sacrifice while still keeping her strong emotional connection to life.
She starts to take on more of her fathers responsibilities, and helps her brother work in the fields. The way Antonia handles the situations

He admires her impulsiveness, charisma, and strength. Antonia doesn't always handle situations for the better, but she always perseveres through tough times. This is an exhibition of her strength, emotionally and physically. After the gruesome winter in which Antonia lost her father to suicide, she took on his responsibilities and help her brother and family. Jim, or rather Cather seems to admire her strength. Antonia is an embodiment of what Jim, would want to be, “The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me.

“Rose, can you bring the bucket to milk the cows!?” said my mother, calling from the farmhouse. I had just finished helping my brothers picking corn on the farm. We living on a prairie in Nebraska with my father, mother, and 3 brothers and 2 sisters. My sisters and I were in charge of making dinner, cleaning up dishes, helping harvesting corn on the farm, and caring for the animals. My brothers and father, built a house for my mother to raise us in when my sisters and I were young. Every morning, my sisters and I made a hefty breakfast for my brothers and father before they started the long day on the farm. After we clear the table, wash the dishes sand put the house in order. Then we’d meet out mother at the farm house, she’s usually already have milked and fed the cow, so we would go feed the chickens, collect the eggs and clean. Then we collect any vegetables that were ripe in the garden and help out our mother prepare lunch and dinner. If we finish early, we sew some cloth to prepare clothes and blankets for the upcoming winter. Though my sisters usually were faster weavers, mine came out nicer. After father came home with my brothers, we would eat on the table my brothers made for my mother’s birthday last summer. Before washing up in the tin tub by the sink and getting ready for bed, we wash the dishes and tidy up, and feed the