作者

薇拉·西伯特·凯瑟,内布拉斯加州最著名的作家,出生在弗吉尼亚州。十岁时,她举家迁往内布拉斯加州的韦伯斯特县。凯瑟的许多熟人和红云地区的场景都可以在她的作品中看到。凯瑟写过诗歌、短篇小说、散文和小说,获得过许多奖项。1920年,她的小说《我们的世界》(One of Ours)获得了普利策奖。小说讲述的是内布拉斯加州一个农场男孩参加第一次世界大战的故事。这些小说表达了她对土地的热爱,以及对现代生活的物质主义和墨守成规的厌恶。她致力于家庭的重要性以及对人类勇气和尊严的需求等价值观,创造了强大的女性角色,这些角色的力量和决心以前只被认为是男性的。《我的安东尼娅》是凯瑟最好的作品之一,是一部非传统的、关于草原生活的浪漫小说。它讲述了一位非凡女性的故事,她的力量和激情是拓荒者精神的缩影。

人物

吉姆负担- 这个男人叙述了这个故事。

安东尼娅Shimerda- 波希米亚移民的女儿和故事的女主角。Ambrosch.

Shimerda-安东尼娅刻薄的哥哥

Marek Shimerda-安东尼娅智障的弟弟。

Yulka Shimerda-安东尼娅的妹妹。

希默达先生和夫人——安东尼娅温和的自杀的父亲,以及她痛苦、抱怨的母亲。

拉里·多诺万-安东尼娅以为会娶她的男人。

莉娜林嘉德-一个和吉姆一起长大而且很成功的女孩。

安东Cuzak-安东尼娅的丈夫。

概括

这本书的书始于介绍。在介绍中,它讲述了詹姆斯Quale负担(吉姆负担)以及如何故事是写的。介绍是由一个女人是吉姆的老朋友,他在他所做的同一个内布拉斯加州镇上长大。他们现在居住在纽约,吉姆是一个成功的律师。她讲述了Jim的妻子,尤其是她不喜欢的人,并且不认为她非常适合吉姆。他们开始谈论安东尼亚,他们都知道和钦佩,并且想知道为什么有些东西不是关于她的。几个月后,Jim让她写的是他所写的东西,她把叙述写为吉姆写了它。故事始于十年的吉姆吉姆负担从弗吉尼亚州到内布拉斯加州,在失去父母后与他的祖父母住在一起。他们住在大草原农场,吉姆享受土地,做家务,并与他的祖父母和他们的雇佣帮助。作者通过她有吉姆来形容它的方式表明了她对土地的热爱:“新的国家在我面前打开:那些日子里没有围栏,我可以在草地上选择自己的方式,相信我的小马让我回家。 . . . I used to love to drift along the pale-yellow cornfields, looking for the damp spots one sometimes found at their edges, where the smartweed soon turned a rich copper color and the narrow brown leaves hung curled like cocoons about the swollen joints of the stem. Sometimes I went south to visit our German neighbors and to admire their catalpa grove, or to see the big elm tree that grew up out of a deep crack in the earth and had a hawk’s nest in its branches” He soon met the Bohemian immigrants, the Shimerdas, who had come out on the same train as he had. He soon became friends with their daughter, Antonia, whom he thought was very pretty. “I remember what the conductor said about her eyes. They were big and brown and full of light, like the sun shining on brown pools in the wood. Her skin was brown too, and in her cheeks she had a glow of rich, dark color.” The Shirmadas had been conned into buying their place. They lived in a dingy, dirt floor cave and were very poor. They didn’t speak English. Jim started teaching Antonia English, and she was a good learner. Antonia’s father felt that he couldn’t deal with the strains of his new life and support his family so he committed suicide. She is forced to do the work of a man and turns from a gentle young lady into a man, in some ways. The elements of fun in her childhood were few and far in between. ‘Antonia’s life is full of disappointment and she is forced to grow up much too quickly. The road she takes is full of ditches and bends but it clears and straightens in the end. As soon as her father is buried, Antonia realizes that she now has a heavy burden on her shoulders. Since she is one of the eldest in the family, she must now work to put food on their table. Her mother is a complainer and can’t speak English, her oldest brother, Ambrosch, is strong, mean and not well liked, the second oldest brother, Marek, is mentally and physically disabled and her sister, Yulka, is still a youngster. With the help of their neighbors, the Burdens, ‘Antonia is able to establish a meager living for her family. She does this by working on her farm as well as the other farms in the area. While this work is very beneficial for the family, ‘Antonia is turned into a rough and wild creature. When she is old enough, ‘Antonia leaves the prairies and goes in to town to find work. She becomes what we would call today, a live-in housekeeper. She works hard and sends all of her wages home to help her mother and siblings on the farm. The hours were long and the breaks few so when she did get to go out, ‘Antonia and her friends create quite a reputation for themselves. She somehow gets mixed up with the wrong crowd and slowly begins to lose the honor and respect she worked so hard to gain. ‘Antonia leaves to marry a ” no-good ” and comes home alone, sorrowful and dejected. Her fiancée had told her that they had been married but then ran off without her. ‘Antonia later gives birth to a girl, the illegitimate child of this supposed marriage. She takes great pride in her daughter but with her birth, she loses whatever respect she had left. Years later, ‘Antonia is found in Hastings, Nebraska, married with eleven children. Her dream has come true, to have land of her own and many delightful little children running wild all over the place. She works hard and is weary but has been repaid as her wish has been fulfilled. She has her land, her family, her garden and she still has the fire of life within her. ‘Antonia’s life was a difficult one. The burdens that she had to carry were not meant for her shoulders. All through her life’s difficulties she remained devoted to whatever family she had. Thoughts of her family always came before thoughts of herself. “She lent herself to immemorial human attitudes which we recognize by instinct as universal and true. . . She was a battered woman now, not a lovely girl; but she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one’s breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. All the strong things of her heart came out in her body, that had been so tireless in serving generous emotions.” Jim Burden makes an important sociological observation when he notes that the town boys admire the Bohemian girls, but won’t marry them; while the hard-working Bohemian women help to make their farms profitable, and the “refined’ town girls don’t. He then lives out this observation by marrying ‘well’, a woman whose wealth and family connections help establish him in business (as marrying Antonia would not – would, in fact, have prevented him from ever achieving the status he has acquired at the beginning of the book), but who brings him neither happiness nor children. Antonia, in spite of her difficulties with her family and her first attempt at marriage, does achieve a real and satisfactory life.

引用本文为:威廉安德森(SchoolWorkeHelper编辑组),“威拉凯瑟的我的安东尼亚:作者,角色,摘要,”SchoolWorkHelper,2019,//www.chadjarvis.com/willa-cathers-my-antonia-author-characters-summary/

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