My Antonia 3 Essay Research Paper One

Antonia couldn t be any happier with the life she is living. She has become grizzled, lost many teeth, and has had to work hard in this new venture. One phrase that shows Antonia’s love for the farmland is when she says; There wasn t a tree here when we first came. We planted every one, and used to carry water for them, they were on my mind like children. Many a night after he was asleep I ve got up and come out and carried water to the poor things. (219) Antonia tells of how they started their farm and how she never gets lonesome there like she did in town. She asks You remember what sad spells I used to have, I ve never had them out here. (221)

In book number 4 of My Antonia , it reveals Antonia’s love for the farm lifestyle and the happiness it s brought her, even though Anton is a city man at heart and is not truly happy in his current state. Anton is satisfied with what he has and cannot leave Antonia with her strong will and coercive talk. This again demonstrates that the yielding husband struggles with the question, whether the life that is right for one was ever right for two? I believe that in this case it is not.