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Symbolism Of Light In My Antonia

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Something that Cather uses to symbolize nature is light. In My Antonia light symbolizes change. Jim associates Antonia with warmth and vigor. Also he says her eyes are like the sun and describes her with glowing cheeks. A description of light prefaces every major change that occurs in this novel. One of Jims most vivid memories of Antonia is when he was reading with her “in the magical light of the late afternoon”. Near the end of the novel they sit together on the roof and watch the lightening of a loud and “electric” thunderstorm. Then at the end of the novel when Jim leaves Antonia he stands on the prairie roads in “the slanting sunlight”. Another thing that is symbolized a lot in My Antonia is the Prairie. The Prairie symbolizes many things.
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