Admiration In Willa Cather's Expectations For Antonia

Cather’s admiration for Antonia is very clear throughout the book in my own opinion. Antonia goes through lots of difficult hardships like her father’s sudden suicide and her fiance leaving her while pregnant, but she continues to percervere and take care of her family no matter what the circumstances are in her way. She is generous, vivacious, and an inspiration for girls everywhere. An example of this is shining through especially when Mr. Harling stated “You’ve been going with these girls who have a reputation for being free and easy and now you have got the same reputation. I won’t have this and that fellow tramping about my back yard all the time. This is the end of it, tonight. It stops short. You can quit going to these dances, or you can hunt another place.
Mr. Harling did not want Antonia to keep going to the Tent to dance. He threatened her that it was either dancing at the Tent with her friends, or her job. Instead of submitting to Mr. Harling’s anger, she stood up for what she enjoyed doing and was brave enough to tell the Harings “Stop going to the tent? I would not think of it for a minute! My own father could not make me stop! Mr. Harling ain’t my boss outside my