Character Quotes Flashcards
ANTONIA
What does Jim say about Antonia’s headstrong nature? (C4)
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“Antonia had opinions about everything, and she was soon able to make them known”
ANTONIA
What does Jim have to say about the way she speaks to him? (C7)
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“Much as I liked Antonia, I hated a superior tone that she sometimes took with me”
ANTONIA
What does Jim say about how she has grown? (C17)
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“She had come to us a child, and now she was a tall, strong young girl”
ANTONIA
What does Jim comment about her masculine behaviour? (C17)
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“Antonia ate so noisily now, like a man, and she yawned often at the table and kept stretching her arms over her head, as if they ached”
ANTONIA
What does she say about Jim’s grandmother’s comments about her doing heavy farm work?
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“I not care that your grandmother say it makes me like a man”
JIM
How does the narrator from the introduction describe Jim? (Intro)
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“Naturally romantic and ardent disposition”
JIM
What does the narrator say about Jim’s aspirations in the introduction? (Intro)
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“Jim is still able to lose himself in those big Western dreams”
JIM
What does he say about fate and belonging? (C1)
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“Between that earth and that sky I felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, I felt, what would be would be”
JIM
What does he say after killing his first snake? (C7)
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“I had killed a big snake - I was now a big fellow”
JIM
What does he say about drama on the plains? (C14)
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“I looked forward to any new crisis with delight”
MR SHIMERDA
How does Jim describe him when he first sees him? (C3)
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“His face was ruggedly formed, but it looked like ashes - like something from which all the warmth and light had died out”
MR SHIMERDA
How does Jim describe his smile? (C6)
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“The old man’s smile… was so full of sadness, of pity for things, that I never afterward forgot it”
MR SHIMERDA
What did Mr. Shimerda reassure the Burdens? (C10)
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“They were not beggars in the old country; he made good wages, and his family were respected there”
MR SHIMERDA
How does Jim describe Mr. Shimerda when he is close to death? (C12)
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“His face had a look of weariness and pleasure, like that of sick people when they feel relief from pain”
MR SHIMERDA
What reasoning does Jim give for Mr. Shimerda’s suicide? (C14)
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“Mr. Shimerda had not been rich and selfish: he had only been so unhappy that he could not live any longer”
