Effects of Setting

"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."

"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."

"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie.  The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together.  The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.


The setting of My Antonia has a great effect on the characters perception of beauty, the way that they describe it shows that they enjoy the changing of the landscape. Living in an ever-the-same place like the prairie made them appreciate things more too. Like Antonia loves the land she ,eventually, stays and farms it.

The creek down from my grandfathers house symbolizes serinity to me. Watching the small fish dart and play through the dancing leaves is so calming and beautiful to me. The trees standing tall and watchful over their home, roots forever grasping for the open water, weaving themselves into the rock. And the beautiful clamness of the small water fall as it sings over the broken rocks and debrie, turning evenbeer cans into an instument for its song.