![]() "There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.I had a feeling that the world was left behind, that we had got over the edge of it, and were outside of man's jurisdiction.this was the complete dome of heaven, all there was of it. In My Antonia, the main character also feels the difference after his move to Nebraska. This love of the prairie is reflected in many of her early works, in part because of the effect it had on her perceptions as a child. It has been the happiness and curse of my life.” In an interview, she described it thus, “I was little and homesick and lonely.So the country and I had it out together and by the end of the first autumn the shaggy grass country had gripped me with a passion that I have never been able to shake. ![]() ![]() She felt that the vastness was causing an “erasure of personality.” However, by the end of the first year, she had fallen in love with the land. When she first moved to Nebraska, she didn’t like it. ![]() There, they lived in a small town called Red Cloud, an immigrant town with more foreigners than “Americans”. When she was nine years old, she moved with her family to Nebraska. Willa Cather Photographer: Aime Dupont Studio, New York Willa Cather was born on December 7, 1873, in Back Creek, Virginia. ![]()
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