In the early 1900s Northern & Eastern European immigration flourished into the United States. The world was changing as technology and new methods of transportation started to take off. As stated in the Bohemian Paradox, “poor social conditions along with political persecution by the Empire and subsequent anti-socialist legislation as prime motives to emigrate” (5). Thousands upon thousands of the working class Europeans sought to leave the dirty, congested cities in Europe to the peaceful vast countryside of Nebraska hoping to make a new life for them away from the prosecution they faced back in their home country. In the book My Antonia Willa Cather captures the idea of the changes and hardships these European immigrants had to initially overcome in order to survive in the United States. Three formal aspects of Cather’s fiction include “its choice of subjects, its way of attending to character, and the nature of its plots” (Millington 55). Cather utilizes these formal aspects in......
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