2. I believe that Jim has grown the most throughout his and Antonia’s relationship. Yes Antonia learns to speak english and still develops into a young adult but Jim grows as a person learning the lives of immigrants as well. Jim begins the novel with a fairly naïve view of immigrants. In response to the hardship faced by Antonia's family, he tells her, "People who don't like this country ought to stay at home. […] We don't make them come here". But by the end of the novel, he's come to appreciate the will and spirit that make immigrants like Antonia so successful. "The girls I knew were always helping to pay for ploughs and reapers, brood-sows, or steers to fatten," he explains. "One result of this family solidarity was that the foreign farmers…show more content… As immigrants, there are different occasions when the women were mistreated and abandoned and ignored. In the story, Antonia faced a lot of difficulties such as her father's suicide, the rape attempt that left her pregnant, and severe poverty that she experienced. “Unless his girls could teach a country school, they sat at home in poverty.” The women experienced many stereotypes from the novel both as immigrants and migrants. It was clear that the women faced many rough experiences. They were viewed as less civilized and were cast in a negative manner. However, there are other women who were very successful as portrayed by Cather. Some women like Antonia stopped working in the field and started working as a housekeeper like Lena and Tiny. Antonia just like other women in the novel lost her freedom of choice. She decided to start working with Wick Cutter instead of the Harlings due to Mr. Harling’s demand that she give up her dances. Women are also shown as merciful and compassionate. This is seen when Mrs. Burden helps Shimerda’s family when she realizes they are suffering. The immigrants are in severe poverty that is why Mrs. Burdens brings them food on occasions. Due to this help, she was stereotyped "sturdy helpmate and civilizer of the frontier.” Fuchs said, "I want to thank you very much, Mrs. Burden, for that you are so kind to poor strangers from my kawntree.” Pioneer living conditions
