Sarah Jewett
My Antonia
Passage Analysis
Chapter 6, Page 28
“All those fall afternoons were the same, but I never got used to them. As far as we could see,
the miles of copper-red grass were drenched in sunlight that was stronger and fiercer than at any
other time of the day. The blond cornfields were red gold, the haystacks turned rosy and threw
long shadows. The whole prairie was like the bush that burned with fire and was not consumed.
That hour always had the exultation of victory, of triumphant ending, like a hero’s death—heroes
who died young and gloriously. It was a sudden transfiguration, a lifting-up of day.”
This passage takes place in the beginning of chapter 6 in Book I of Willa Cather’s My
Antonia. Antonia takes Jim to meet her family’s recent friends of Russian immigrants. Jim meets
