Hello, I am looking for someone to write an article on My Antonia by Willa Cather. It needs to be at least 1500 words.

Hello, I am looking for someone to write an article on My Antonia by Willa Cather. It needs to be at least 1500 words. This makes Jim call his memoirs My Antonia and not just Antonia, not to claim ownership of Antonia but to indicate that the story of Antonia is a product of his mind and heart as it is of the past.

In the course of the novel Jim ages from a ten-year-old boy into a middle-aged man who also grows from the shy orphan, he was in his earlier years to a successful legal counsel in New York for the railroad companies after having acquired an outstanding education in the University of Nebraska and Harvard University. Despite all this, Jim remains consistent in his interest in others though he also finds satisfaction in spending time alone. he often assumes the role of the detached observer watching situations unfold. It is only at the end of the novel when Jim sets aside his passive reservations to reunite with the middle-aged Antonia on Cuzak farm and makes an active attempt to connect with the past he cannot forget. Jim's most important relationship is with Antonia in the form of their friendship. His allowing Antonia to remain in his mind as an abstract symbol of the past is a strong illustration of Jim's introspective mentality. He allows himself to drift away from her in the physical but reserves a special place for her in his heart by treating her memory with great nostalgia over the years. After 20 years he can, however, contemplate recreating a real relationship with Antonia, he now seems to acknowledge that she exists and is still herself even after the past they shared has ended.

In Ursula Le Guin's, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Jim Burden can be equated to the inhabitants of Omelas who after learning the misfortunes of the unfortunate child silently leaves the city but does nothing to help the poor child. In My Antonio, Jim seems to admire the innocence, brilliance a good heartedness of Antonia, but he does nothing beyond having her memories. He even says, "Some memories are realities, and are better than realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again." (Cather, p.259) He is even seen associating her to the lost purity and innocence of childhood. He sees her only as a friend, yet if maybe he married her by helping her rise above the cultural inhibition, making her not love him, something that may have solved her poverty and slavery. He even tellingly thinks of Lena who is carefree and even rejects all men who offer to marry her, more sex than he does Antonia (Rosowski, 33-46).