![]() ![]() On a poor plot of land abutting Jim's grandparents' flourishing farm, a family of Bohemian immigrants struggles to survive. Swedes, Norwegians, Russians, French, and Bohemians alike conjoined on the harsh prairie to nudge a living out of it. Late nineteenth-century Nebraska was a Midwestern melting pot of immigrant farmers. ![]() Yet he quickly learns to relish this land on his grandparents' farm Jim feels "entirely happy.dissolved into something complete and great." Cather is at her most passionate describing this immense landscape with its acres of waving grass and harsh winter skies. He is instantly overwhelmed by the prairie's endless expanses and vast sky: a dome so big it threatens to blot out his existence. Its narrator, Jim Burden, comes to the Midwest an orphan. Nearly every page of Willa Cather's simple story of a young man's life in Nebraska is infused with an intense nostalgia – for the past, for the countryside, for the irrepressible spirit of youth. ![]() To speak her name was to call up pictures of people and places, to set a quiet drama going in one's brain." "This girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood. ![]()
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