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- W2321838505 abstract "IN one of the saner commentaries concerning My Antonia, Terence Martin notes the twenty-year gap between Books IV and V. He does not elucidate the hiatus, but he does inadvertently suggest its importance when he states that Jim's absence from Nebraska and the intervening life afford little but material for conjecture and inference.' The narrative blank space is more important than Martin makes it appear, but indeed we do conjecture and infer when faced with the missing decades. Primarily, we ponder the superficially simple but ultimately complex question of what exactly is the process Jim undergoes, and consequently, what does the entire novel mean? We watch Antonia change substantially-see her experience times of searching calm, bitchy hoydenism, sexual debauchery, physical and psychic pain, and maternal tranquility. These changes are graphic in the narrative design: Antonia's screaming attack on Jim in chapter XVIII, Book I; her dehumanizing labors in chapter III, Book IV; and her serene beauty throughout Book V. In contrast, we notice very little commensurate growth or change for Jim. Viewed against Antonia's near epic struggles, he appears strangely flat, peculiarly immutable. Since his place in the narrative is at least equal to hers and since Cather does not typically offer contrastive characters without giving each adequate stature (as with the bishops Latour and Vaillant), Jim's apparent lack of development does perplex. Evelyn Helmick tries to solve the riddle by tracing Jim's personality back to primordial matriarchial mysteries.2 She explains My Antonia generally and the pivotal Cuzak section particularly in terms of these ancient Greek rites and locates Jim's gradual" @default.
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- W2321838505 title "My Antonia: Emergence and Authorial Revelations" @default.
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