Annotation
In this powerful and astonishing novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning yet thoroughly convincing heroines in American fiction. Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants, not only survives her father's suicide, poverty, and a failed romance, she triumphs with high spirits.
Characters
| Name | Burden, Jim |
| Gender | Male |
| Trait | Orphan |
| Name | Shimerda, Antonia |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Farmer |
| Traits | Bohemian |
| Immigrant | |
| Married | |
| Mother | |
| Genre | Domestic Historical Literary Classic Fiction |
| Topics | Farm life Orphans Pioneer life Neighbors Childhood friendship Childhood memories Immigrants Suicide Social classes Hardship Survival |
| Setting | Nebraska Frontier Prairie |