My Àntonia – Critics by Character
Quote Themes
Àntonia ‘A reaction against modern urban life’ – Orvell
‘The novel is about a national experience – the frontier or pioneer experience’
– Miller
‘Defiant, assertive, physically robust, unconventional’ - Drew
Jim
‘Jim’s claiming of Ántonia is both rhetorical and ideological’ - Lindemann
‘Jim becomes more and more lonely and withdrawn from the life of the town’ -
Charles
Lena Lingard ‘Lena, like Jim, follows a pattern of upward mobility’ - Tredell
Tiny Soderball ‘Real power is the power to possess’ - Lindemann
Mr Shimerda ‘Grim reality of the struggle imposed by the frontier condition’ – Martin
‘The feeling of loneliness and separation causes Mr Shimerda’s downfall to
depression’ – Stubberfield.
Wick Cutter ‘Cutter the con artist abuses the privilege of patriarchal power’ - Woolley
‘His need for control not only is destructive of others but is finally self-
destructive as well’ - Woolley
Quote Themes
Àntonia ‘A reaction against modern urban life’ – Orvell
‘The novel is about a national experience – the frontier or pioneer experience’
– Miller
‘Defiant, assertive, physically robust, unconventional’ - Drew
Jim
‘Jim’s claiming of Ántonia is both rhetorical and ideological’ - Lindemann
‘Jim becomes more and more lonely and withdrawn from the life of the town’ -
Charles
Lena Lingard ‘Lena, like Jim, follows a pattern of upward mobility’ - Tredell
Tiny Soderball ‘Real power is the power to possess’ - Lindemann
Mr Shimerda ‘Grim reality of the struggle imposed by the frontier condition’ – Martin
‘The feeling of loneliness and separation causes Mr Shimerda’s downfall to
depression’ – Stubberfield.
Wick Cutter ‘Cutter the con artist abuses the privilege of patriarchal power’ - Woolley
‘His need for control not only is destructive of others but is finally self-
destructive as well’ - Woolley
