I had to read this book for the Republic Branch book discussion. I think I would have liked it more if we hadn't read The Awakening by Kate Chopin last month. When I researched, I found that Willa Cather made some very scathing remarks about Kate Chopin's amazing book and it turned me off so much, I had a hard time reading this one without thinking of that.
It is a classic and I think does a great job of glamorizing the American Expansion across the country. Cather does a good job of showing how tough it was for immigrants but I don't think she went far enough. And calling the book My Antonia when Antonia only appears in three of the five "books" of the novel seems odd. I also think it was pretty contrived when she starts the book pretending to be someone else and pretending that Jim is really the writer. Whaaa?!
The first time I read the book, I loved it. Maybe the third time I'll love it again but not this time.
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