Preview

Protagonist In Willa Cather

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
296 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Protagonist In Willa Cather
The protagonist is the main character in a writing/story. In Willa Cather story the protagonist name is Anton Rosicky. I would describe the protagonist in Willa Cather "Neighbour Rosicky" as Diligent, Stubborn, and Respected. The author starts the story with Mr. Rosicky visiting Dr. Burleigh. During this visit, Mr. Rosicky finds out that he has a bad heart. Mr. Rosicky being such a diligent worker thought otherwise "No, I guess my heart was always pretty good… I got a little asthma, maybe… Just awful short breath when I was pitchin' hay last summer, dat's all" (Cather, 1928/2013, pg. 1863). I would imagine anyone who works as hard as Mr. Rosicky would be in denial about his current health status.
“If you and mother are going to town,” Frank
Continue Reading
View Writing Issues

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    Analyzing Willa Cather's 'One Of Ours'
    • 388 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Analyzing Willa Cather's 'One Of Ours'

    Willa Cather once said, “Where there is great love, there are always wishes.” She makes this quote relevant in her Pulitzer-prize winning novel, One of Ours. One of Ours is a story about Claude Wheeler, a young man from Nebraska, struggling to find his purpose in life. Throughout the entire novel, he only has one consistent presence in his life that truly believes in him and that is his mother.…

    • 388 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Symbolism in Willa Cather's Short Story, Paul's Case
    • 328 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Symbolism in Willa Cather's Short Story, Paul's Case

    In the short story, “Paul´s Case”, the author, Willa Cather, uses flowers to symbolize Paul´s life, which she does to show the connections between all living things. In the story, Paul, a young high school boy, dreaming of a life of someone else, first works at a theatre, then drops out of school, gets a job, and in the ends stealing money from the company so he can pay for his travel to New York, Later on in the story, Cather describes how “flower gardens (were) blooming behind glass windows… (Both) violets, roses, and (again) carnations.” Flowers seem to follow Paul wherever he goes. Even, when there are no flowers around him, he asks for them in the hotel suite. Perfection and a longing for a world he was not naturally born in. In the end of the book, before Paul dies, he buys some red carnations. Before Paul jumps in front of the train, he buries the flowers in the snow. Paul´s life was like the flowers. Both the flowers in the glass windows, the one in his buttonhole, the ones at the hotel, and in the end the carnations he buries has a limit for how long they can stay alive. They have a better opportunity to live longer if they are in their right environment. When they get cut off from their roots and gets put into fancy glass windows they only have a certain amount of time that they can stay alive. The same thing happens to Paul. When Paul steals the money from the company, and leaves his roots at Cornelia Street for New York, where he, just like the flowers, only can live for a certain amount of time, because it is not his right environment. All in all the flowers symbolizes the life of Paul. They both bloom best in their right environment. The problem is; Paul does not know his right environment.…

    • 328 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Summary Of Miss Jewett By Willa Cather
    • 200 Words
    • 1 Page

    Summary Of Miss Jewett By Willa Cather

    In the essay, “Miss. Jewett”, Willa Cather reveals the diction when creating her art ultimately concluding that art is one’s ability to express their feelings through the diction they choose to write in. Sarah Orne Jewett was an author from the 1840s who loved to express her feelings through the use of diction in her novels. In one of her novels name, The Country of the Pointed Fir, she expresses her feelings towards life and writing through her main character, who is a writer herself. 40 years later, another author named Willa Cather reads what Miss. Jewett writes and notices Jewett’s ability to express her feelings with the diction she chooses to use.…

    • 200 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Finding Nemo And The Princess Bride Comparison
    • 508 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Finding Nemo And The Princess Bride Comparison

    One thing you probably know is that there is a protagonist in each and every story. Chances are, the protagonist is also the hero. Westley (maybe you know him by “the farm boy”) is a very good example of a hero. He takes on a very difficult, but yet interesting, life. He works on Buttercup’s family’s farm, and could be even referred to as a slave.…

    • 508 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Holden Caulfield Heroism
    • 629 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Holden Caulfield Heroism

    The Hero's Journey occurs when someone in an ordinary place in life is called to action; aided by a mentor, allies, or tools; undergoes several tests leading to a final event in which the hero receives some sort of reward which is then used to bring enlightenment to those around them. Aristotle defines the tragic hero as someone who has noble goals and ideas who is unable to achieve their goals due to their own flaws. There are many examples of tragic heroism in Holden Caulfield, the main character of The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. Holden has several goals throughout the course of the novel but his progress is often interrupted by his hypocrisy, immaturity and his inability to see the beauty or meaning of life.…

    • 629 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Literary Elements In Sula
    • 637 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Literary Elements In Sula

    Throughout this short scene, the reader can determine that the protagonist of the story is, Helene, a young woman who is travelling from Ohio to New Orleans with her daughter to visit her dying grandmother. The protagonist can be described as the hero or leading character of a story. Helene, a single mother travelling a very long distance with her young daughter, has to overcome her discomfort of using the colored restroom under the scrutinizing stares of white…

    • 637 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    What's In that Bottle Lab
    • 263 Words
    • 2 Pages

    What's In that Bottle Lab

    The protagonist does not have a name because the story isn't about him personally. The purpose of the story is to illustrate foolishness, and to provide the lesson of reason.…

    • 263 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Better Essays

    A Research Paper On Willa Cather
    • 1155 Words
    • 5 Pages

    A Research Paper On Willa Cather

    Zach Meyer 3/9/2018 Lora Devereaux Composition II Willa Cather Willa Cather, was an American author, whose fame was achieved fame through her writings about pioneer life on the Great Plains. Cather grew up in Virginia and Nebraska as a kid, and then moved to Pennsylvania and ultimately New York as an adult pursuing her career. She was renowned as “clever” and “skillful”, especially in the writings of her short stories. She was praised by many for her works, including the New York Times, who praised her for her first novel. Over the course of her life, Cather would go on to write many different short stories, novels, and even a biography.…

    • 1155 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Willa Cather Research Paper
    • 563 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Willa Cather Research Paper

    Willa Cather has long been known for her extraordinary short stories, poems, books and more, specifically, she is known as a romantic realist. The term romantic realist in and of itself is relatively controversial, as the two terms are generally thought of as antonyms. In Cather’s life, this description is very appropriate, as she lived through both the realism and realist periods. The combination of hardships Cather experienced, and the transition from the romantic period to the realist period, shaped her into the realist author she is known as today.…

    • 563 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Willa Cather Writing Comparison
    • 298 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Willa Cather Writing Comparison

    Cather creates characters who often leave the places she so lovingly describes because she herself left her home. This tendency of writing about scenarios where people leave is something close to home for her, and thus she can write more easily about it and put true meaning in her words and descriptions. Most often, the best writing is that which is pulled from life experiences and events which have touched the heart. Quite possibly, that is why Cather has proved to be so successful and a master of literature. I know that I personally always try to relate what I’m writing to my life, otherwise I can’t really get into it so it appears uninteresting and unrelatable.…

    • 298 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Willa Cather's a Lost Lady
    • 1685 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Willa Cather's a Lost Lady

    In Willa Cather's A Lost Lady, Captain Daniel Forrester is a gardener at heart. His lifetime is spent encouraging growth, whether of railroads, personal lives or flowers. His philosophy is to dream "because a thing that is dreamed of in the way I mean is already an accomplished fact" (44). Close friends described the Captain as clearly looking like "… pictures of Grover Cleveland. His clumsy dignity covered a deep nature, and a conscience that had never been juggled with" (39). Because of his clear conscience Captain Forrester became a rich soil for many around him to take root in. As this soil, he could always be in the background and many never noticed how important he was until he was missed. Once the Captain's career outside his home ended he truly opens up to the peacefulness of nature, including his flowers, which eventually illustrate the phases of his life.…

    • 1685 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    1984 Essay
    • 905 Words
    • 4 Pages

    1984 Essay

    The main protagonist in fictional books or films is often labeled as a hero. In 1984 by George Orwell, the plot follows a man named Winston who is trying to rebel against the totalitarian government called Ingsoc. Ingsoc, also known as the Party, defeats Winston and because he is defeated he does not remain a hero in the reader’s eyes. Winston’s lack of cunning, lack of courage, and lack of effort to defeat the Party shows that he does not fit the description of a hero.…

    • 905 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    The Protagonist: A Fictional Narrative
    • 566 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The Protagonist: A Fictional Narrative

    Tom wondered for what seemed to be the millionth time why Dectives were required to dress like wall-street bankers or stock analysts. At least that was the expectation in public, however the moment he had the office to himself, he unknotted his tie, slipped off the linen suit jacket, and undid the top button of his shirt, then sat back in his chair, raised his eyes to the ceiling, and tapped the tip of a ballpoint pen against his teeth. That was Tom's usual mode of concentration and contemplation, and so intent was the man's focus on the new case that all else slipped from his mind, even the recollection that he'd texted his wife. Therefore, the sudden familiar sound of her voice, accompanied by the enticing aroma of barbecue, startled him, and he immediately shot upright. The sight of Lila elicited a smile that only widened with the greeting and kiss. "Sorry baby."…

    • 566 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Better Essays

    Unesco Paper- Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System
    • 1705 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Unesco Paper- Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System

    Charles Darwin was quoted in 1842 describing the Belize Barrier Reef as "the most remarkable reef in the West Indies" (Encyclopedia). This description still holds true today. The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, which includes the Belize submarine shelf and its barrier reef is the world's second largest barrier reef system and the largest reef complex in the Atlantic-Caribbean area (Programme-wo, 2009). What makes a reef like the Belize Barrier Reef system so special is that coral reefs are the most diverse of all wetlands and are home to more species than any other marine ecosystem (Wells). Also the reef system offers more varieties of coral formation than anywhere else in the Caribbean (Encyclopedia). For people to appreciate and understand the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve system, they need to know about the many species that call this place home, the threats against the preservation of the reef, and what is being done to protect and preserve the reef. Once this happens my hope is more people will become involved in the safeguarding of this wonderful place.…

    • 1705 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    The Patriot Movie
    • 770 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The Patriot Movie

    The Patriot movie has been a great movie. All the scenes were incredible and others were devastating. Having to watch this history movie has become one of my favorite movies with the scenes that I have chosen. My first scene I chose was actually a very sad part of the movie. It was when Benjamins 2nd oldest son was shot by one of the British cruel leaders. He was killed because he was trying to free his oldest son Gabriel and was shot instead. After that, Benjamin became upset because the British leader ended up ordering to kill the wounded American’s and burned his house down. He got his sons, the guns and went after them to get his oldest son. They ended up killing all the soldiers and made sure they all died and ended up freeing his son from getting executed. The reaction I got from this part of the movie was very shocking that they would kill a kid and burn down a whole house. It’s also shocking that they were allowed to do all that. What I liked about it though was that he went after his son and did not care about what he had to do, he just had to decide it and go after it.…

    • 770 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More

Related Topics