My Antonia THE AMERICIAN DREAM

A detailed Summary of My Antonia THE AMERICIAN DREAM

In the novel, My Antonia, by Willa Cather, everyone seems to

be trying to pursue the American Dream. While they all have different

ideas of just exactly what the American Dream is, they all know

precisely what they want. For some, the American Dream sounds so

enticing that they have traveled across the world to achieve their

goal. They work hard to fit in and succeed, but, as in the case of Mr.

Shimerda, are not always successful.

One girl who was chasing the American Dream was Lena Lingard,

a small farm girl from a poverty-stricken family. Lena had one thing

on her mind: money. To her the American Dream was wealth. She wanted

freedom from worry about where her next meal would come from, or how

she would pay for a new dress. Lena began her journey to wealth by

becoming one of the many hired girls in the town of Black Hawk. There

she was apprentice to a dressmaker and before long began to show great

potential. She soon began making money with her newfound talent, and

used this money not to help herself, but to benefit her family. Lena

spent her free time buying clothes for them, and paid some of their

bills. She also went to many dances over th

her. As soon as she could, she got her own dress shop in Lincoln and

began to do very well in her new surroundings. She helped out with all

hired girls got, that of a brazen hussy. Everyone thought that she

starting a new life in America, but soon he grew homesick and tired of

she asked for the help of Jim Burden, her closest neighbor. Every day

she learned a little bit more from him. He taught her farming methods

farming. All that was familiar to him was left back in Bohemia. He

tried to keep it to himself so that the rest of his family would think

that she had finally found a good husband, he left her at the altar

Approximate Word count = 836
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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