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Willa Cather Assignment 2

Willa Cather Assignment 2

Q "Hired Girls" and "Lena Lingard"- Willa Cather 1. In "Hired Girls," how does the novel begin to offer a different conception of work and its relationship to community? 2. What do the stories of Lena Lingard and Tiny Soderball say about Cather's interest in female characters? 3. Who is Wick Cutter? 4. How would you describe Jim's "mental awakening"? How does Jim's education put him in a new relationship with his past, with his life on the prairie? 5. Where does novel reveal Jim's efforts (through narrative) to compensate for lost time?

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In the novel the author opts for a first person narrative. It is told from the perspective of Jim who recalls his experiences in life. In ‘Hired girls’ there is a change in the scenario as Jim separates from his family and Antonia and leaves behind the farm life for a life in the town of Black Hawk.