Antonia and Lena Compare/Contrast

Antonia and Lena Compare/Contrast
At the time of My Antonia, the Nebraska prairie was filling up with immigrants looking for a new beginning. Their old life across the ocean was not what they’d hoped, and in coming to America they tried to do as well as they possibly could with their second chance. Antonia Shimerda, a Bohemian, and Lena Linguard, a Norwegian, were both children at the beginning of the book, and although they spent a good deal of their adolescence in the same area, their lives and personalities were very different.
Antonia was definitely a hard worker during her childhood. After her father took his own life she had to step up and do farm work. Working like a grown man could not have been easy for a teenage girl with no experience whatsoever. Later in her life, as her first marriage fell apart, Antonia once again had to step up and do difficult tasks that were usually done by men. Even after becoming a mother of many children in her second marriage, A...