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However, as idealistic as his memories of Ántonia may be, Jim realizes that they are subjective as Past, but also the standard by which he measures the quality of his present. Jim’s memories of Ántonia have become not only the lens through which Jim views his “ girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of ourĬhildhood”. Past has on his perception of the present as the unnamed narrator of the introduction says,

Jim’s desire to record his memories of Ántonia indicates the persistent grip that his memory of the Text is actually Jim Burden’s memoir about his life with and without his childhood friend, Ántonia. My Ántonia’s introduction establishes the importance of memory in the novel by explaining that the Cather’s work suggests that anyĬoncept of the present and/or future depends upon the malleable and subjective nature of one’s Memories of the past can have on one’s perception of the present. Peter, and shows how Cather uses these characters to illustrate the effects that one’s This essay focuses on My Ántonia’s Jim Burden, and The Professor’s House’s Napoleon Willa Cather’s My Ántonia and The Professor’s House explore the effects of idealizing one’s memories of the past in order to fulfill or deny one’s concept of the