My Antonia

 Willa Cather in her novel My Antonia (yes, a signal phrase) offers her view of life during the pioneer time.

If the book was told through Antonia's eyes the view point wouldn't show her growth throughout the book. Telling the story through Jim let us see how she matured and relied on him during troubled times. You would have gotten to know more about her feelings and thoughts if it had been told like that.

Willa Cather does a pretty good job at telling the story as a man.

The way that she wrote his parts makes him sound like a man, not a woman pretending to be a man. Her use of words and how she put them together, was the biggest part of that.

Because he was telling the story of his Antonia , not really her story, but a story about them  the girl he knew.

The Author, Willa Cather, did a wonderful job telling Antonia's story through Jim.