Hardships In Willa Cather's My Antonia

Willa Cather shows her readers the economic hardships of the homesteaders through her novel My Antonia. She does this in the hopes that we, her readers, will come to understand better the many sacrifices and sufferings the homesteaders had to endure. Her novel My Antonia shows us these trials through the autobiography of Jimmy Burden. In this book we walk in the footsteps of Jimmy, and live through the many hardships he and his fellow homesteaders had to face. We are able to really see how nature predicts the fate of these people. Fierce snow storms, and summers filled with drought or too much rain can so easily destroy everything that these people had worked so hard to build. This book also gives us a taste of the hardships that many immigrants