own free will? “These are some of the many questions that plague humanity‚ the questions that give philosophers‚ sociologists‚ scientists‚ and writers material with which to work” (Hicks). In the short story Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament‚ Willa Cather uses these questions to tell of a boy‚ Paul‚ whom his peers do all they can to help; yet‚ their attempts do not work because he simply struggles from a bad case of petty lying and borderline narcissism. Often the traits associated with narcissism
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Death Comes for the Archbishop By Willa Cather Willa Cather is the author of the award winning novel Death Comes For The Archbishop written in 1927. She was born in 1873 near Winchester‚ Virginia and soon moved to Nebraska (Cather‚ 1927). During her childhood she was surrounded by foreign languages and customs. Even at her young age she felt a connection to the immigrants in Nebraska and was intrigued with their connection to the land. Willa also loved writing about the vanished past of
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Women in the early nineteenth century were viewed as the weaker sex and their only job was to take care of the domestic chores (wic). Women had to be delicate‚ well behave and well-polished. In Willa Cather’s book‚ “My Antonia”‚ Antonia is a bohemian immigrant who comes to America with her family to start a new life.She becomes close friends with a boy name Jim who helps her learn english and together they have adventures out in the prairie. Jim sees Antonia as a lovely girl but soon changes his
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Willa Cather‚ an American author‚ achieved much recognition on her frontier works. She earned much acknowledgement in her work of My Antonia. Raised on a primitive farm in Nebraska‚ Cather uses her experiences of the landscape to transform the senses of her readers. Cather demonstrates her ability to capture the feeling of the prairie at the end of the “Hired Girls.” (“Presently we saw… somewhere on the prairie.” Page 146-147) Not only is this scene an important image of the moment‚ but the representation
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In her novel O Pioneers!‚ Willa Cather‚ a well-known American author‚ depicts her experiences throughout her life living in the great state of Nebraska. O Pioneers! grew out of her familiarity with the communities of settlers‚ conversations with the immigrant farmers from different places‚ and the simple being of her living on the prairies herself. In 1913‚ after years of editing and writing short stories and poems‚ she wrote and became famous for her novel about the West‚ O Pioneers! At the time
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vision disappeared; the ball dropped and dropped until the red tip went beneath the earth. The fields below us were dark‚ the sky was growing pale‚ and that forgotten plough had sunk back to its own littleness somewhere on the prairie” (50-51). Willa Cather My Antonia In the book‚ My Antonia‚ Jim Burden finds himself an orphan leaving his beloved home to a new‚ stranger place. When he first arrives he observes the country and how different the surroundings are. Throughout the story Jim finally
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of the Past in My Antonia “Some memories are realities‚ and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again”; this quote by Willa Cather expresses the relationship that the past can have on humans. Some would argue that the past has no role in My Antonia‚ almost as if the overall lesson of the novel had gone right over their head. Willa Cather has written the whole novel in flashback form‚ and this has a great effect on the reader. She is trying to show that you can learn from your
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A Landscape of Emotions Being consumed by one’s surroundings results in an impressionable experience. Taking a deep breath of fresh air‚ admiring a breathtaking view‚ and watching the sizzling sunset evoke emotions. Willa Cather effectively evokes emotions in the reader‚ in order to relate to the characters’ feelings‚ by providing vivid descriptions of the setting‚ as well as through the reactions of Jim. From the start of the novel to the very end‚ descriptions of the Jim’s environment
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The Character of Paul in Willa Cather’s "Paul’s Case" Pulitzer Prize winner author Willa Cather’s story Paul’s Case tells the story of a boy‚ Paul‚ who is disgusted by his current situation. He admires and envies the wealthy people that he encounters during his employment as an usher at Carnegie Hall in Pittsburgh‚ and considers their lives to be perfect. He is suspended from school early in the story for being disruptive‚ that is‚ voicing his opinions on school and anything else he considers below
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Young Goodman Brown vs. Paul After studying the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne ’s "Young Goodman Brown" and Willa Cather ’s "Paul ’s Case"‚ I began to see many similarities within the two stories. Both of the main characters in each story have characteristics that could be looked at as being alike‚ but after analyzing each character I started to find that although alike in some aspects‚ these two characters are very different from one another. At first I noticed that both Goodman Brown
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