Writing in the album of a friend, and recounting the “Opinion, Tastes, and Fancies of Wm. In her youth, Cather sometimes dressed as a boy, called herself Willie or William, and professed an ambition to become a doctor. Cather was devastated.Ĭather’s most intimate relationships were with women, including her partnership with the editor Edith Lewis, with whom she lived for 40 years. Her close friend and patron, a Pittsburgh woman named Isabelle McClung, abruptly announced in 1916 that she was getting married. The novel’s central ache makes more sense when you know that Cather, while writing it, suffered a heartbreak that would stick with her for the rest of her life. Generations of readers have wondered what, exactly, keeps Jim and Ántonia apart, and in truth that’s not entirely clear. My Ántonia is a novel saturated with nostalgia and longing, filled with the weight of unrequited love.
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